Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt

Illustrated with portraits by Winifred Mabel Brunton nee Newberry (1880- 1959) a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist and wife of the British Egyptologist Guy Brunton. They travelled to Lahun in Egypt to join Flinders Petrie for fieldwork in 1912-14. Working with her husband on the archaeological digs, she studied the evidence of the various painting, sculptures and even the mummies to develop her final portraits.

Hardcover. English. Hodder and Stoughton, London. (1924). 163 pp with 18 portraits (14 coloured). In the original brown cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover and gilt title on spine. Corners lightly bumped, some sporadic foxing throughout slightly more on last few pages. Name inside. Book No: 500087