The Story of Ancient Egypt (The Story of the Nations, #7))

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1st American Edition, 1888). Hardcover, 408 pages. No dust jacket issued. Previous owner's name stamped on FFEP; Abilene, Kansas "Bookseller and Stationer" stamp also on FFEP. Boards and spine are age worn; pages toned. Fold-out maps intact. Text block solidly bound; hinges weak.

ABOUT THE BOOK: ANCIENT EGYPT is the seventh book in THE STORY OF THE NATIONS series. The Story of the Nations Library was a historical book series started by the British publisher Thomas Fisher Unwin in 1885. The series was published in the United States by G. P. Putnam, though not in identical form.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Rawlinson (23 November 1812 – 6 October 1902) was a British scholar, historian and Christian theologian. His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus (in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardner Wilkinson), 1858–60; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862–67; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy (Parthian), 1873; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy (Sassanian), 1875; Manual of Ancient History, 1869; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871; The Origin of Nations, 1877; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881; Egypt and Babylon, 1885; History of Phoenicia, 1889; Parthia, 1893; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898. His lectures to an audience at Oxford University on the topic of the accuracy of the Bible in 1859 were published in later years as the apologetic work The Historical Evidences of the Truth of the Scripture Records Stated Anew.