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Lady Meux Manuscripts Nos. 2-5. The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Life of Hanna (Saint Anne), and the Magical Prayers of Aheta Mikael [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]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good ++
- Seller
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About This Item
London: W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen, 1900 Limited to 300 Copies for Private Circulation, this being No. 191. [4], lxv, [1], 158pp [printed on rectos only], 159-220pp [double sided], 116pp [printed on rectos only, and being in Amharic text], printed on hard stock paper. Top edges gilt, other edges marbled. Collated, and complete with 111 chromo-lithographic plates, as called for, with the colours still bright. Not just oversized, but MASSIVE, measuring 15 1/4 inches tall by 13 inches wide, and 5 1/8 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather, done in an Ethiopian style. Covers in Fair Condition, internally in Good ++
Condition. Spine covering pulling away from the front cover, front cover nearly detached, lower spine edge loss, corners of the book are bumped, occasional fore-edge tear [not affecting the text nor image]. 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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- Bookseller
- Monroe Bridge Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010054
- Title
- Lady Meux Manuscripts Nos. 2-5. The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Life of Hanna (Saint Anne), and the Magical Prayers of Aheta Mikael [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 - Fair to Good ++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited/Numbered
- Publisher
- W. Griggs, Chromo-Lithographer to Her Majesty the Queen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
- Keywords
- Ethiopia Ethiopian Christianity Religion Religious Christian Lady Meux Manuscript No. 2-5, Virgin Mary, Hanna, Saint Anne, Aheta Mikael, Prayers, Limited Edition, Art
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology/Anthropolgy/Ethnology;
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