Budge, Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Condition : very good. Nice clean copy.
Binding : half leather.
Pages : VIII pp., 1 f., 246 pp.

Sir Wallis Budge, in full Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, (born 27 July 1857 in Cornwall, England - died 23 November 1934 in London), curator (1894-1924) of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum in London, for which he collected a large number of cuneiform tablets, Egyptian papyri, and Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic manuscripts. He joined the museum in 1883 and subsequently made numerous trips to Mesopotamia, Egypt and Sudan to conduct archaeological excavations. He published numerous works, including translations of ancient texts such as the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He was knighted in 1920.