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Cairo Egypt Stanley Lane-Poole 1895 2nd Ed Illustrated Antique F. Diemer Label
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- Author
- Stanley Lane-Poole
- Publisher
- J. S. Virtue & Co., Limited
- Illustrator
- G. L. Seymour
- Language
- English
- Topic
- Cairo, Egypt
About this book
Cairo: Sketches of Its History, Monuments, and Social Life
By Stanley Lane-Poole
J. S. Virtue & Co., Limited, London
1895
Second edition, enlarged
Decorative cloth hardcover
xiv + 334 pages
No ISBN
An original Victorian study of Cairo’s history, mosques, monuments, Islamic art, streets, and social life. Stanley Lane-Poole was a British orientalist, archaeologist, and member of the Egyptian Commission for the Preservation of the Monuments of Arab Art.
This enlarged second edition contains many wood illustrations by G. L. Seymour, Harry Fenn, J. D. Woodward, and others. The pictorial cloth cover shows a gilt Nile sailing vessel.
This copy retains a period label from F. Diemer, a Cairo bookseller founded in 1892. The firm was later named bookseller to the Khedive. An early owner notation appears to read “Cairo, Feb. 95,” which suggests the book was already in Cairo during its year of publication. Later owner writing includes a 1968 San Diego notation. No notable named-owner provenance has been confirmed.
Best fit for collectors of Egypt, Cairo, Islamic architecture, Victorian travel, Middle Eastern history, and nineteenth-century illustrated books.