Gautier (Theophile) The Mummy’s Romance.
£125
Translated by G.F. Monkhood
London, Literary Press, n.d..
8vo. Original red cloth, spine gilt.
An attractive jacketed edition of Gautier’s Le Roman de La Momie, originally published in 1858, a historical novel set in Ancient Egypt, which features the Biblical Exodus.
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Some very light foxing; cloth very good; jacket somewhat rubbed at extremities.
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