[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: A COLLECTION OF SPELLS
Charles Agvent
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Sun Aug 10 13:30:38 EDT 2014
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: A COLLECTION OF SPELLS. New York: Limited Editions
Club, 1972. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 12-1/4") volumes bound in black and red
buckram, respectively, with identical Egyptian decorations stamped in
pigment and metallic leaf in a slipcase covered with genuine cedar
veneer. Edited and translated from the Egyptian hieroglyphics by Raymond
O. Faulkner. Copy #1209 of 1500 numbered copies designed by John Dreyfus
and printed at the Curwen Press. The text is accompanied by a separate
volume in which are reproduced scenes painted in the original Papyrus of
Ani at the British Museum, photographed for this edition by Peter
Parkinson. The 24 panels have been mounted in the form of a concertina
which unfolds to a length of 16-1/2 feet. Issued unsigned. Fine in
glassine and a Very Good slipcase with a closed split along one back
edge. (#017538) $150.00
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