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28 The Publishers * Circular - jan . 16 , 1888 I
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JUST PUBLISHED . Crown 8 vo . cloth extra , gilt top , price lOs . 6 d . EGYPTIAN ARCHEOLOGY . Chapter I . —CIVIL AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE . Chapter II . —RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE . j Chapter HI . —TOMBS . j Chapter IV . —PAINTING AND SCULPTURE . Chapter V . —THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS . By PROFESSOR G . MASPERO , D . C . L . Oxon . English . Edition , with Notes , by AMELIA B , EDWARDS . WITH 299 ILLUSTRATIONS . ' There is no other book , we venture to say , that can compare with this in helping us to reconstruct the life of ancient Egypt out of its material remains . ' Academy . j ' It is a marvel of erudition and condensation . It sums up the long result 3 of thousands of years of Egyptian civilisation in language precise enough to make the work guide a to handbook the antiquarian for the lore specialist of the country , and popular for travellers enough in to Egyp secure t . — its Scotsman becoming . a 1 * We know of no handbook which may be so confidently recommended to every - class of readers as Prof . Maspero ' s recent work . The author ' s name is a sufficient guarantee for scientific accuracy in detail and systematic treatment , but , in addition | to this , we have much that is new both in matter and interpretation . ' ' Scottish Geographical . Magazine . ' This is a work of undoubted merit and of great utility . '—Bookbinder . ' It goes without saying that Miss Edwards' style is worthy of her author and of her subject . '—Graphic . * The present volume is of most value . '—Morning Post . 1 This work gives an insight into the religion , arts , sciences , and daily iife of ancient Egyptians in a picturesque and compendious form . '—Rock . 4 Miss Edwards is to be congratulated on having been able to present English readers with so careful and accurate a translation of M . Maspero ' s treatise . The cuts are a very valuable feature , several of them representing subjects not hitherto engraved . '—St . James ' s Gazette . * Professor Maspero gives us not merely a much-needed handbook of the latest Egyptian discoveries , but a picturesque , vivacious , and highly original volume . Miss Edwards' rendering of the text is clearness itself . It is not often that the results of p the ictured archaeolog to the ist mind 's labours . '—Liverpool are either . Meecuky presented . in so attractive a form or so vividly i j H . OBEVEL & CO ., 33 King Street , Covent Garden , London , W . C . I
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 16, 1888, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16011888/page/30/
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