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Lady Meux Manuscript No. 1. The Lives of Maba Seyon and Gabra Kestos [Limited Edition]
by Budge, E. A. Wallis [The Ethiopic Texts Edited with English Translations, Etc., by - Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good to Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
London: W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen, 1898 Limited Edition, this being No. 201 of 300 Copies issued for Private Circulation. Lxxxiii, 144pp [printed on rectos only], 65pp [printed on rectos only, and being in Amharic text], printed on hard stock paper. Collated, and complete with 33 b/w illustrations and 92 chromo-lithographic plates, as called for, colours still bright. OVERSIZED, measuring 12 1/2 inches tall by 10 1/2 inches wide, and 3 3/4 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather, done in an Ethiopian style, top edges gilt, other edges marbled. Covers in Good Condition, internally in Very Good Condition, front cover detached, foxing on back preliminary pages, upper/lower spine edges shows some loss. Valerie, Lady Meux [1852-1910] was a character in her own right, being a banjo playing barmaid that married Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet, who came from one of Britain's richest brewing dynasties - Meux's Brewery. The original Ethiopian manuscripts were brought back from the Abyssinian Campaign by a British officer, who sold them to the antiquarian book dealer in London, Bernard Quaritch. They were then purchased by Lady Meux, and reproduced by E. A. Wallis Budge, on her behalf.
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- Monroe Bridge Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010053
- Title
- Lady Meux Manuscript No. 1. The Lives of Maba Seyon and Gabra Kestos [Limited Edition]
- Author
- Budge, E. A. Wallis [The Ethiopic Texts Edited with English Translations, Etc., by - Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar, Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered
- Publisher
- W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Keywords
- Ethiopia Ethiopian Christianity Religion Religious Christian Lady Meux Manuscript No. 1 Maba Seyon, Gabra Kestos, Limited Edition Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology/Anthropolgy/Ethnology;
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