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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 mint full cloth, spine gilt. In fine condition. Excellent copy. ~ 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 renowned Egyptologist Prof. Dr. Heerma van Voss (1923-2015) with his charming bookplate inside cover. X-1 .
EUR 352.00 [Appr.: US$ 383.06 | £UK 301.5 | JP¥ 59648] Booknumber: 8998

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