MACKENZIE, Donald Alexander. Egyptian Myth and Legend. Egyptian Myth and Legend ... With Historical Narrative Notes on Race Problems, comparative Beliefs, etc.

MACKENZIE, Donald Alexander. Egyptian Myth and Legend. Egyptian Myth and Legend ... With Historical Narrative Notes on Race Problems, comparative Beliefs, etc. London: The Gresham Publishing Company Limited. [1913].

8vo Original decorative sage green cloth, decorated and lettered in black and gilt, top edge gilt; pp. [2], xlix, 404; title printed in sepia and black with pictorial vignette, colour-printed frontispiece after Maurice Griffenhagen with tissue-guard and 5 further coloured plates after paintings by Greiffenhagen and Alma-Tadema etc.; only light spotting internally, a very good copy.

First edition. The researcher of mythology and anthropologist MacKenzie explains in the preface that "in this volume the myths and legends of ancient Egypt are embraced in a historical narrative which begins with the rise of the great Nilotic civilization and ends with the Graeco-Roman Age. The principal deities are dealt with chiefly at the various periods in which they came into prominence, while the legends are so arranged as to throw light on the beliefs and manners and customs of the ancient people".

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