Still a particularly lovely exemplar of a set, complete in 13 volumes, of G. Maspero’s monumental historical survey of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria. The title page registers Maspero’s affiliations with Queen’s College, Oxford, he being a member then also of the Institute and Professor at the College of France.
Augmented with over 1,200 colored plates and illustrations, complete with tissue guards, including at frontis of Volume I, being a spectacular, “The Guardians of the Temple,” after a painting by Ferdinand Keller.
Bound handsomely in an Imperial octavo hardcover format, a tall, thick, handsome binding, half pebbled Morocco leather over tips and spine, fine brown and tan marbled paper over boards, same at each pastedown front and rear, featuring decoratively gilt spines with red leather moon, star and gold pyramids and four raised bands to each spine. Top edges gilt, bottom and fore-edges rough-cut. Published in London by the Grolier Club, and with an extensive Editor’s Preface by A.H. Sayce and another, also extensive Translator’s Preface by M.L. McLure. Withdrawn from an L.D.S. Church library, with some of the usual signs thereof, but lacking also many of the usual markers.
Volume I: xxvii [1], xxx [2], xi [1], [3], 3-357 [4] pp.; Volume II: x [1], 2-342 [5]pp.; Volume III: x [1], 2-419 [5] pp.; Volume IV: x [1], 2-388 [4] pp.; Volume V: x [1], 2-365 [4] pp.; Volume VI: vii [3], 2-449 [5] pp.; Volume VII: x [1], 2-415 [5] pp.; Volume VIII: ix [3], 4-464 [6] pp.; Volume IX: ix [2], 2-385 [6] pp.; Volume X: ix [2], 2-365 [6] pp.; Volume XI: ix [1], 2-386 [7] pp.; Volume XII: ix, [1], 2-409 [2] pp.; Volume XIII: frontis matter, 1-480 pp.
All in, a fine, handsomely bound, sturdy set of an important work of classical history by an acknowledged expert.
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