Present-Day Egypt

by Frederic Courtland Penfield

illustrated by Paul Philippoteaux and R. Talbot Kelly 

Second edition, signed.  New York:  The Century Company, 1907  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Brick red covers with illustration and titles in gilt and white ink. 
• Boards show some smudges, bumps, edgewear.  Corners are bumped, frayed, with exposed board.  See photos.  
• Spine has gilt text and is darkened with crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is fragile, with some cracking at front board, stitching visible at page openings.  
• Pastedowns and feps have some bookseller marks, author's gift inscription.  
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations are bright and clear.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits some light edgewear.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges have publisher's ink at head, deckle fore and foot edges. 
• PS2026.0318

396 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches

Second Edition, revised and enlarged.  Publisher's brick red boards with design by Decorative Designers (DD).  Back cover and spine lightly soiled; spine lettering dimmed.  Illustrated with drawings by Paul Philippoteaux and R.Talbot Kelly, and with more than 55 photogravures in black-and-white.  Uncommon inscription by the Author on the front endpaper.  Conditon is overall Very Good-.  

Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922) was the United States diplomatic agent to Egypt from 1893 to 1897.  Those years furnished him with the material for his book about contemporary Egypt, aimed at the layperson rather than the Egyptologist.  Penfield later served as the United States Ambassador to Austria-Hungary from 1913 to 1917. 

During the period of United States neutrality (1914-1917) in World War I, Penfield met Michael Francis Doyle, to whom this copy is inscribed.  Doyle (1875-1960), a native of Philadelphia, received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897.  He represented the United States Government on many occasions, beginning in 1915, when he was appointed special agent of the State Department to provide for American citizens in Europe at the beginning of World War I.  It was in this way that the two men met, and it explains how a book about Egypt at the turn of the 20th century has an inscription dated "Wien, 10 Oct. 1914."

Second edition, revised and enlarged, copyright 1903.  This copy printed 1907.

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