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The Egyptian Book of the Dead 1895

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Title: The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum
Author: Budge, E.A. Wallis
Description: clv, 377 pp. (4to) 12½x10, period half green morocco and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition.The Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introduction, etc. by Wallis Budge who purchased the scroll for the British Museum in 1888. A facsimile plate volume was published in 1890 and again in 1894, the present work is the first edition of the text volume.
Heading: Place Published: London
Publisher: British Museum
Date Published: 1895