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Poole, Sophia Lane The Englishwoman In Egypt : Letters From Cairo, Written During A Residence There In 1842, 3, And 4, With E W Lane, Esq. Author Of 'The Modern Egyptian' By His Sister [ 2 volumes complete ]
Charles Knight & Co, Ludgate Street 1844 1st edition.
Quarter calf over marbled boards, G. 2 volumes, [tp]+232pp, [tp]+240pp, woodcut frontis to volume I, grand total of 19 b/w woodcut plates, 1 map of Cairo, 3 plans ( of antiquities ) & 15 vignette illustrations, series half title to Volume II ( Knight's Weekly Volume ), leather rather dry & scuffed, edges rubbed, front endpapers lacking from both volumes and the initial page rather yellowed, paper to both volumes a little tanned, a fair set. Interesting & important account of life in Egypt for women in the 1840s. The author, sister of the noted orientalist Edward William Lane, travelled to Egypt at his suggestion so that she 'might enjoy of obtaining an insight into the mode of life of the higher classes of the ladies in this country, and of seeing many things highly interesting in themselves, and rendered more so by their being accessible only to a lady, suggested to him the idea that I might both gratify my own curiosity and collect much information of a novel and interesting nature, which he proposed I should embody in a series of familiar letters to a friend' (preface). The book was the first in English to describe from direct observation the life of Egyptian women, and caused a sensation on its publication in Britain. Edward Lane provided an appendix detailing Egyptian Magic & female ornamentation from his 'The Modern Egyptian'.
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165.00 GBP
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