Hussein, Mohamed A.

ORIGINS OF THE BOOK.

Egypt's contribution to the development of the book from papyrus to codex. Translated by Dorothy Jaeschke and Douglas Sharp. Pp. 136(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, bibliography, index; square 4to; white cloth, spine lettered in red, boards with decorative blind borders, foot of spine and bottom edge of upper board lightly damp stained; dust wrapper, slightly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper free endpaper, the outer leaves offset, scattered foxing; New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1972. First U.S. edition.. Item #164138

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