Egyptian Myth and Legend

With Historical Narrative Notes on Race Problems, Comparative Beliefs etc

By Donald A. MacKenzie 

Published by The Gresham Publishing Company Limited, London, no date but 1913

First Edition, and rare in this complete condition

Often the binding is loose and some plates missing - not this copy - a very good copy

With a colour frontispiece with the original tissue guard, and six further full page colour one-sided plates, and a 33 black and white full page one-sided plates.  

A renowned Scottish journalist and folklorist, and a prolific writer on subjects including religion, mythology and anthropology, Mackenzie presents an appealing study of the myths and legends of Egypt between the rise of the Nilotic civilisation, and the end of the Greco-Roman age. Historical and comparative notes are accompanied by stunning full page plates both in colour and in monochrome, displaying famous paintings and statuary that depict the deities discussed. 

Contents are:

Chapter I: Creation Legend of Sun Worshippers

Chapter II: The Tragedy of Osiris

Chapter III: Dawn of Civilization

Chapter IV: The Peasant who became King

Chapter V: Racial Myths in Egypt and Europe

Chapter VI: The City of the Elf God

Chapter VII: Death and the Judgment

Chapter VIII: The Religion of the Stone Workers

Chapter IX: A Day in Old Memphis

Chapter X: The Great Pyramid Kings

Chapter XI: Folk Tales of Fifty Centuries

Chapter XII: Triumph of the Sun God

Chapter XIII: Fall of the Old Kingdom

Chapter XIV: Father Gods and Mother Goddesses

Plate I: The Girl Wife and the Bata Bull

Plate II: The Farmer Plunders the Peasant

Plate III: Senuhet Slays the Warrior of Tonu

Plate IV: Queen Ahmes (Wife Of Thothmes I), Mother of the Famous Queen Hatshepsut

Plate V: Luring the Doom Serpent

Plate V: Fowling Scene

Plate VI: Farm Scene: The Counting and Inspection of the Geese

Plate VII: Pastime in Ancient Egypt Three Thousand Years Ago

Chapter XV: The Rise of Amon

Chapter XVI: Tale of the Fugitive Prince

Chapter XVII: Egypt's Golden Age

Chapter XVIII: Myths and Lays of the Middle Kingdom

Chapter XIX: The Island of Enchantment

Chapter XX: The Hyksos and their Strange God

Chapter XXI: Joseph and the Exodus

Chapter XXII: Amon, the God of Empire

Chapter XXIII: Tale of the Doomed Prince

Chapter XXIV: Changes in Social and Religious Life

Chapter XXV: Amenhotep the Magnificent and Queen Tiy

Chapter XXVI: The Religious Revolt of the Poet King

Chapter XXVII: The Empire of Rameses and the Homeric Age

Chapter XXVIII: Egypt and the Hebrew Monarchy

Chapter XXIX: The Restoration and the End

In the publisher's original pictorial cloth fine binding, in 404 pages. Top edge of the pages is gilt.

There is light shelfwear. There is a bump to the bottom right corner of the front board. There is no foxing. There is no sunning to the spine. There are no previous owners' names or inscriptions. The plates are bright, fresh and crisp - pristine. There are no missing, stained, damaged, creased or loose pages. The spine and binding are solid. It is complete and original.

Measures 16cm x 22cm x 5.5cm.