Barns, John W. B. (Wintour Baldwin). - The Ashmolean Ostracon of Sinuhe.

Oxford, Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Geoffrey Cumberlege & London, Oxford University Press, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Small folio. Pp. (ii), 33, (8). Plus 10 plates and frontispiece, all printed in fine collotype. HARDCOVER, bound in the original publisher's full cloth, spine gilt, cloth on back discoloured; signature to first free endpaper. In a very good condition, excellent interior. ~ FIRST EDITION. Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. [Provenance:] From the library of Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Herman De Meulenaere (1923-2011). X-4 .

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