Naville, Edouard — Bubastis (1887-1889)
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1891. Hardcover. Half cloth with green paper over boards. 71 pp. + 54 bw plates, including 2 fold-outs. The eighth memoir of They Egypt Exploration Fund, founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards, an Egyptologist, and Reginald Stuart Poole, a professor of archaeology. First organized to co-ordinate archaeological explorations in the Nile Valley and delta, it was supported by many leading clergymen looking for archaeological evidence of Biblical sites but became increasingly involved with the establishment of archaeology as a scientific discipline. It remains Britains foremost Egyptological society. (paraphrased from the UCL Bloomsbury Project web site). VG text block clean with no sunning; interior stitching a bit loose; Covers are soiled and show evidence of previous water exposure. Also some edge wear. Tear in top of spine covering.
