Description: Bound in full contemporary brown calf boards with raised bands on the spines in six compartments, spines lettered and decorated in gold, each spine with two morocco labels each, lettered in gold, boards' edges show gilt tooling; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. The bindings are sound and attractive. Inside binding of front cover of volume 1 is slightly separated. The text is generally quite clean. Illustrated throughout. A Very Good and attractive full leather set with slight wear to the extremities. Volume one illustrated by a frontispiece, numerous in-text and full-page woodcuts and vignettes, with three plates, one of which is a fold-out; volume two illustrated by a frontispiece, nine plates, two of which are fold-out, and numerous in-text and full-page woodcuts; volume three illustrated by a frontispiece and two plates; volumes four and five illustrated by in-text and full-page woodcuts and vignettes; volume six is a supplemental volume, illustrated by seventy plates, many of which fold-out. Most illustrations are done in black and white, but several are chromolithographs. Volumes one, two, and three contain the errata slips, volumes four and five contain errata notices printed on the verso of the table of contents. John Gardner Wilkinson was the son of a reverend and a classical scholar. His mother, the scholar, taught him how to draw. In 1821, upon his arrival to Egypt, Wilkinson abandoned his army career and spent twelve years traveling around the Nile, and the eastern and western deserts. He excavated at numerous Egyptian archaeological sites and drew the results of his work into his notebooks. Wilkinson's work was focused on ancient Thebes. He created the numbering system for the tombs in the Valley of the Kings. His map of Thebes was later published in a limited quantity by the Royal Society. His series went through many publications, and Wilkinson later received a knighthood in 1839 for his work. J.G. Wilkinson helped to found the field of Egyptology in Great Britain, and his notebooks, sketches, and private collection of antiquities contain a legacy of significant archaeological study. His collections remain in England (many at the Bodleian). An early archaeologist, and one of the first Egyptologists, Wilkinson's series is a high spot in the publishing history of books on antiquity. Free shipping within the United States. Outside of the United States please use the Ebay Global Shipping Program.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Binding: Fine Binding
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
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Author: J.G. Wilkinson
Personalized: Yes
Region: Middle East
Publisher: John Murray London
Topic: Ancient Egypt
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1837
