Bell, Edward

The architecture of ancient Egypt.

London, G. Bell & Sons Ltd 1915.

Reference: 00525
Price: £10 [convert currency]

Full Description

8vo. xx+(4)+255+(1)pp, folding map, 141 text ills, 24 plans. Publisher’s cloth. Author’s presentation copy. R.W. Schultz’s copy.

An efficient summary of the prevailing state of knowledge on the architecture of ancient Egypt. Bell prints as an appendix what is apparently the first English translation of an influential article on Egyptian architectural forms by the German scholar Lepsius.