Author: C CARNARVON (GEORGE EDWARD STANHOPE MOLYNEUX HERBERT, 5TH EARL)
Title: Catalogue of Books Selected from the Library of an English Amateur Part 1
Description: London, For Private Circulation Only. 1893, Limited. Cream Wrappers, 285mm. x 200mm. Book, Printed at the Leadenhall Press. 153 copies printed, of which 3 copies were on vellum, this being No. 14. [ii], 49 pages, 7 b/w illustrations, 3 sepia, printed on india paper laid on to leaves of text paper, 1 colour plate in gold, brown and black, with tissue guard. all edges uncut, Text in English ad French. Some soiling darkening to wrappers, with some loss to spine, a previous owner has hand written 'Lord Carnarvon's Catalogue' along spine, internally fine. The Earl of Carnarvon was best known as an Egyptologist, and the backer of Howard Carter's excavations in the Valley of the Kings. [671]. Very Good.

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