BOOKS ON EGYPT AND CHALDAEA: THE ROSETTA STONE - Budge, 1st 1904 - ANCIENT EGYPT

The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus. Volume 1: The Rosetta Stone; Volume 2: The Rosetta Stone [continued]   Book Details + Condition: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. (London). First Edition thus, 1904. By E.A. Wallis Budge. Very scarce two-volume set. Octavo. Volume 1: 226 pages with numerous illustrations and 16 plates (one folding); Volume II: 203 pages with 3 in-text illustrations and 6 pages of illustrations. Firm binding; rubbed and bumped corners and edges; light wear to boards; fading to spines; a few pages with repaired tears (not uncommon with hand-cut pages); repaired tear to fold-out; interior is clean and free of markings, save small decorative owner stamp to half-title pages. These are the 17th and 18th books in the series "Books on Egypt and Chaldea", and are uniformly bound as are all books within the series. Each of the volumes was published separately, but are each complete either within themselves, or, as in this case, as a sub-group. These two volumes