[Rarebooks] FS: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: A COLLECTION OF SPELLS

[Charles Agvent]

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 #323 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. Scattered, 
mostly light foxing, heaviest to endpapers and the title page, thus Very 
Good in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase. (#019858)     $85

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