Author: Wood, Charles
Publisher: London: Bentley 1892.
Description: This is a set of three volumes of The Argosy, each bound in plain cloth, binding firm, minor denting or soiling to boards, still a well preserved set, including a series of 15 essays entitled "In the Lotus Land" written by Charles Wood, who is also the editor of The Argosy" Each essay has approx 20 pages. All are strikingly illustrated with full page plates or ornaments. Here follow some of the titles of the plates in these volumes: Lyons, Marseille, Stromboli, Messina, Between Scylla & Charybdis, The Sakie, Fellah Making Rope, Old Dragoman, Papyrus at Syracuse, Egyptian Girls going to the Nile for Water, The Lotus, On The Nile, Temple at Luxor, Portico at Denderah, Pharaoh's Bed on the Island of Phile, Coins, Sheikh's House, Ancient Temple of Isis, Alexandria Harbour, Cleopatra's Needle, Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Lady of Modern Alexandria, Lady of Ancient Alexandria, Abu Simbel, Tombs at Thebes, Temple at Esneh, Judgement Hall, Rosetta Stone, Edfou Temple, Lotus Flower, Statue of Sekhet, Apis Tomb. The plates in the second volume are entitled: Rosetta, Heliopolis, Kala'oon, Said Pasha in Alexandria, Island of Roda, Tomb of Caliph, Veiled Beauty, A Copt, Beduin at Prayer, Beduin Camp, Gathering Dates, A Water Seller, Woman in Cairo, A Road Waterer, Nubian Woman, A Beduin, Woman Mourning in Arabian Cemetery, On the Banks of the Nile, The Ibis, Lotus with Fruit, Seller of Date Bread, Inundation, Howling Dervishes, Dancing Dervishes, Tent of a Dervish Sheykh, Worshippers in a Mosque, The Citadel, Street in Cairo, Water Seller, Grave of Eve, Sarraf or Money changer, Nilometer (Roda). In Volume 3 the individual parts have their own titles: The Tombs of the Caliphs; Osman, An Interlude; The Mosque of Hassan; The Mosques of Cairo. These volumes are well printed and touching the pages delivers the impression of the type on the paper, a striking set, interspersed with essays and fiction and poetry one would expect in a Victorian era magazine of this kind
Order No: PIP 231481
Language: English
This book has been catalogued with the following subject terms: Arab World, Illustrated, Travel
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