Description:
The English Library, no. 134, Full title reads as follows: "Notes From the Nile, Together With a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (The Oldest Book in the World)" .Among 7 chapters are: With Flinders Petrie at the Medum Pyramid; How I Saw the Great Pharaoh in the Flesh: A Reminiscence of the Bulak Museum; Seti I, The Father of Pharaoh the Great: An Historical Sketch; First Impressions of Thebes; Hymns of Ancient Egypt (with words to 9 hymns); etc. Eight page publisher's catalogue at the end.
Other listing are of hardbacks, this is a paperback copyright edition as shown in pictures.
Spine creased previous owners signature on cover (see picture) overall yellowing. rough edges.