The Land of the Pharaohs Including A Sketch pf Sinai Drawn with Pen and Pencil By the Rev. Samuel Manning, LL.D. Author of 'Those Holy Fields,' 'Swiss Pictures,' Etc. New Edition Revised and Partly Re-Written By Richard Loveyy, M.A. Author of 'Norwegian Pictures,' 'Pictures from Holland,' Etc. The Religious Tract Society, 56 Paternoster Row and 164 Piccadilly. 1887. 

A beautifully illustrated book by The Religious Tract Society with tissue-guard to frontispiece. Inscription in old ink to front-blank-endpaper, dated 1887. 

• Gilt-lettering and illustration to front-board and spine
• Blind decoration to rear board
• Gilded text-block edges
• Floral endpapers
• Tissue-guard to frontispiece
• Numerous illustrations
• 224 pages including index & 6 pages of adverts - 'Illustrated Books of Travel'
• Size: 283mm x 207mm x 20mm
• Weight: 937g
• Printed: 1887

Condition:

Boards showing wear along with extremities; cloth partially split along hinges; endpapers and title-page spotted, sporadically thereafter; inscription at front, dated 22nd Nov. 1887, ink partially showing through onto edge of frontispiece; all intact; p.125/126 with tear along width; occasional corners creased; front-board with furrow as shoen in photograph.

Please consult photographs fully as these are part of the description

The Religious Tract Society was a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799 and known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the 19th century. The society engaged in charity as well as commercial enterprise, publishing books and periodicals for profit.