Egypt and the Egyptian Question
London: Macmillan and Co., 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], vi-x, [3], 2-521, [1] pp. Half contemporary calf over tan pebbled cloth with the spine in six compartments and a maroon and green morocco label lettered in gilt, spine decorated with gilt; textblock, endpapers, and pastedowns marbled. A decorative bookplate from 1883 on the front pastedown. Oxford DNB, G.E. Buckle, "Mackenzie, David Wallace". David Wallace Mackenzie was a journalist and a correspondent for the London newspaper The Times. He was stationed in Constantinople and in the Balkans for several years, and through this position he was able to travel to and write about Egypt. In this volume he presents a geographical summary of Egypt, and investigates its political systems. Wallace travels through the desert to different villages, cities, and communes, and records the daily life, the British influence, and the political realities of nineteenth-century Egypt. Near Fine. Item #00008960
A Near Fine book with minor wear to the extremities and a spot or two of foxing to the margins of the leaves.
Price: $200.00