BUDGE, E. A. Wallis - The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt. Eighth Edition. With Two Maps, Plans of Temples, and Numerous Illustrations.

London & Cairo, Thos. Cook & Son, 1902. Original limp brown cloth. Spine and upper board lettered gilt, with gilt cartouches and hieroglyphs to upper cover with same pattern in blind to lower. Marbled endpapers and fore-edges, engraved frontis. map and one folding internally (by Johnston of Edinburgh), xxvi+674pp. profusely illustrated with b/w plates and very many in-text hieroglyphs and sketches. A lovely bright and tight copy. Mild creasing to spine, edges and spine ends just a little rubbed. One or two foldings protruding minimally. Very occasional light pencil underscoring. First published in 1890, this guide ran to many editions. Sir Ernest Wallis Budge, celebrated Victorian Egyptologist, orientalist, philologist and prolific writer compiled it on the instigation of Thos. Cook and Son while he was Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The guide was to be presented to every Cook passenger on the Nile tourist steamers, so that they would: "no longer be liable to be misled (unintentionally) by Dragomans" (Intro.). As well as comprehensive information on the 'antiquities and their history', the handbook includes some 25 pages on Egyptian and Coptic writing.