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Hope, Colin: EGYPTIAN POTTERY, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, UK Shire Publications, Limited 2004
ISBN: 0-7478-0494-X New Condition

<strong> Clay was used for a myriad of functions in ancient Egypt, of which one of the most important was the production of pottery vessels. The manufacture of pottery has a history of over five thousand years in ancient Egypt ; this book concentrates on that from the time of the first pharaohs to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 BC. <P>Using information drawn from such diverse sources as tomb reliefs and inscriptions, as well as the large amount of pottery from pharaonic Egypt that survives today, this book examines the technique of pottery maunfacture, types of decoration and the function of pottery in that society. <P> About the author: Colin Hope graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1973 with a BA in Egyptology with Coptic, and was awarded a PhD by the University of London for his study 'The Blue-Painted Pottery of the Eighteenth Dynasty'. He is Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Australia, and a member of the International Group for the Study of Ancient Egyptian Pottery. </strong> Egyptian Rock-cut Tombs Aidan Dodson 4.99 0 7478 0128 2 (Shire Egyptology 14) 64 pp, 62 ills. The rock-cut tomb was the most ubiquitous of Egyptian funerary monuments, existing in many types and locations: this book surveys many of these varieties and traces their development. The New Kingdom royal tombs at Thebes and Amarna are described and chapters are devoted to the groups of private tombs that date from the Old Kingdom onwards; the distinction is drawn between the tomb-chapels, decorated with the so-called 'scenes of daily life', and the associated burial chambers, in some cases cut a considerable distance away. There is a brief look at the construction of rock-cut tombs, particularly in the context of the workmen's village of Deir el-medina, and their uncertain future. Aidan Dodson studied Egyptian archaeology at Collingwood College, Durham, Liverpool University and Christ's College, Cambridge. He received his BA in 1985 and an MPhil in 1986. He regularly lectures on Nile cruises and is an extra-mural tutor for the University of London. Egyptian Shabtis Harry M. Stewart 4.99 0 7478 0301 3 (Shire Egyptology 23) 64 pp, 52 ills. The ancient Egyptians believed that the statutory agricultural labour imposed on them in order to utilise the Nile floods would continue in the afterlife. To avoid this irksome duty they devised the shabti, a figurine which they hoped would deputise for them on being activated by the appropriate magic spell. If the idea smacks of 'draft-dodging', the figures are nevertheless of considerable artistic interest, and provide information about Egyptian religion, society, personal names, titles, etc. The iconography, inscriptions, materials and manufacture are described with criteria for identifying and dating the various types. A concise up-to-date treatment in English has long been lacking, and this account will be useful to students, art historians, collectors and others. Harry M. Stewart studied Ancient History and Egyptology at the University of London. He was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Egyptology at University Co Egyptian Statues Gay Robins 4.99 0 7478 0520 2 (Shire Egyptology 26) For over three thousand years, ancient Egyptian sculptors created statues of deities, kings and elite officials and their families. These were set up mainly in temples or tombs and played a vital role in temple and funerary ritual, being places where non-physical entities - deities, the royal ka-spirit and the ka-spirits of the dead - could manifest themselves in this world. The book begins by examining the materials and techniques employed by sculptors and the various statue types and poses that occur. Next it explores the function of statues and the different contexts for which they were made. This is followed by a chapter explaining the notion of the ideal image: statues were not intended to be exact likenesses but rather ideal images reflecting the identity, role and status of the subject. The individual identity of a statue was usually provided by inscriptions, and the various texts found on statues are discussed together with the different types of relief decoration that occur on statue surfaces. A final chapter considers what was constant and what changed over time and looks at the influence that Egyptian statues had on the origins of monumental Greek sculpture. Dr Gay Robins studied Egyptology at the University of Durham as an undergraduate and then went to Oxford to undertake research on queens of the Eighteenth Dynasty, obtaining a DPhil in 1981. She has published numerous articles relating to ancient Egyptian art, women and gender issues, and the living stature and physical proportions of the ancient Egyptians. Egyptian Temples Steven Snape 4.99 0 7478 0327 7 (Shire Egyptology 24) 64 pp, 66 ills. Colossal stone temples are one of the most immediately recognisable products of ancient Egyptian civilisation: distinctive in appearance, striking in sheer size and impressive in the skill shown in the carving and painting of their walls. This book looks at what is known about Egyptian temples, their chronological development, and the range of different religious structures referred to under the general heading of temples. Different chapters explain, with illustrations, the nature of Egyptian gods and why they needed temples to be built for them, what went on within the buildings, and how priests, acting on behalf of the king, served the god on a daily basis and in regular festivals which involved the population as a whole. It also explains the underlying ideas which result in Egyptian temples developing such a particular and peculiar appearance and why both architecture and decoration in Egyptian temples reflect different periods of temple building and different types of temple. Steven Snape studied Archaeology, specialising in Egyptology, at the University of Liverpool. He was awarded a PhD in 1985 for a study of the cemeteries at Abydos. He has directed archaeological fieldwork for Liverpool University, the Egypt Exploration Society and the University of Pennsylvania in both the eastern and western Delta, northern Sinai and at the temple sites of Abydos, Shanhur (near Luxor) and in the Ramesside fortress at Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham.llege London, and has since published much of the inscribed material in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Egyptian Textiles Rosalind Hall 4.99 0 85263 800 0 (Shire Egyptology 4) 72 pp, 52 ills. This book asseses the archaeological importance of textiles, describing and illustrating recently 'rediscovered' garments and translating little known related texts. A survey of the nature and quality of woven fabrics and dyeing processes is followed by a technical description of spinning and weaving. Also a complete chapter is devoted to the wardrobes of Tutankhamun and other Pharoahs. The Egyptian laundry service is discussed. A conclusion is reached on dress as a status symbol in ancient Rgypt by a survey of garment prices and of all types of specific dress, or undress, from that of vizier to prostitute. Rosalind Hall is now a Lecturer in Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, but her interest in textiles and the history of ancient Egyptian dress was aroused by her curatorial work in her previous post as Assistant Curator in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Other titles for Shire by this author are: Egyptian Household Animals (currently out of print) Egyptian Towns and Cities Eric P. Uphill 4.99 0 85263 939 2 (Shire Egyptology 8) 72 pp, 36 ills. This book surveys the main kinds of urban settlement and town planning that existed in ancient Egypt before the Hellenistic period. The evolution and growth of Predynastic villages is traced as an essential prelude to the much greater achievements of the Pharoahs in establishing first towns and then cities. The range of size and...

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"HERBERT, George: The Temple. Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Duodecimo, full blue crushed morocco gilt, marbled end- papers, all edges gilt. First edition, first state of the title-page, which is uncancelled and bears the date of publication in the imprint. Palmer IV-I. STC 13183. Grolier Wither To Prior, 438. Pforzheimer 465. Hayward 66. George Herbert (1593-1633) was the son of Magdelan Herbert, John Donne's friend and patron and the subject of his poem "The Autumnal" ; his older brother was Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Herbert attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was named King's Scholar in 1609, Fellow in 1614, and Orator of the University of Cambridge in 1620. In 1624 and 1625, he represented the county of Montgomery in Parliament. Disillusioned with public life, frustrated at his failure to gain preferment, and weakened by ill-health, Herbert finally resigned his civil ambitions and accepted a calling to the priesthood. He was ordained deacon in 1624 and installed as canon of Lincoln Cathedral; in 1630, he was ordained priest and made Rector of the church at Bemerton near Salisbury. Three years later, he died of consumption at the age of 39. According to his brother, his life at Bemerton "was most holy and exemplary" , to such a degree that "he was little less than sainted." On his death-bed, Herbert sent the manuscript for his poems to his close friend Nicholas Ferrar, with instructions to print them if he thought they might "turn to the advantage of any dejected soul" ; if not, he was to burn them. Ferrar, the founder of the religious community at Little Gidding, the Anglican fellowship commemorated by T. S. Eliot in his poem of the same name, prepared the book for publication, presenting it "in that naked simplicitie, with which he left it, without any addition either of sup- port or ornament, more then is included in itself. We leave it free and unforestalled to every mans judgement, and to the benefit that he shall finde by perusal." In fact, Herbert had arranged his poems, indeed, he had constructed his Temple, so that its architecture would carry the full symbolic weight of his thoughts and emotions. "It is in keeping with Herbert's habit of mind and that of his age that the title and the organization of his volume carry symbolic suggestions of the body and spirit of both the Church and the individual Christian, and that many of his poems are allegorical anecdotes, transfigured 'emblems'." -Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (Oxford University Press, 1962), p.145. The Temple is one of the landmarks of English poetry, certainly the greatest single volume of devotional verse in the English language. "In the lyrics he is not directly addressing the reader, but either God or himself. They are colloquies of the soul with God or self-communings which seek to bring harmony into that complex personal- ity of his which he analyses so unsparingly These intimate poems exactly correspond to the description which he gave of them in his last message to Ferrar, that he would find there' a picture of the many spiritual Conflicts that have past betwixt God and my Soul, before I could subject myself to the will of Jesus my Master, in whose service I have now found perfect freedom."' F. E. Hutchinson, Introduction to The Works of George Herbert (Oxford University Press, 1941), p. xxxvii. Louis Martz, emphasizing Herbert's lyrical and musical gifts (Herbert was an accomplished lutenist), calls The Temple "a culmination, a fulfillment, of the greatest era of English music", which almost exactly coincided with the dates of Herbert's short life. Louis Martz, The Poetry of Meditation (Yale University Press, p. 272). Herbert Grierson, placing The Temple in its theological context, notes that "The Temple breathes the spirit of the Anglican Church at its best, primitive and modest; and also of one troubled and delicate soul seeking and finding peace." Herbert Grierson, Introduction to Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford university Press, 1921), p. xliv. Comparisons between the poetry of Donne and Herbert are inevitable, and Her- bert's "still, small voice" is often drowned out by the more flamboyant Dean of St. Paul's; however, as Douglas Bush notes, "the quiet Herbert is. ..a more subtle artist than the explosive Donne . . . Donne's words commonly have great immediate, local force but carry little aura. Herbert's evoke suggestive associations . . . The poet whose stanzaic and metrical experimentation is statistically and artistically astonishing was . . . a skilled and devoted musician. The movement of his verse, taut or relaxed, can suggest all his fluctuating moods, from self-will or weakness to glad sur- render and renewed strength." Douglas Bush, English Literature in the Earlier Seventeenth Century, 1600-1660 (Oxford University Press, 1962), pp.142-145. Herbert's poems "Redemption", "Easter Wings", "Affliction", "Vertue", "Life", "The Collar", "Discipline" and "Love" are among the most widely anthologized poems in the English language. The present copy is exceptionally fine; aside from a minor repair to the corner of the last leaf and some close trimming which has affected some of the letters in the head- lines, it is clean and crisp, in a lovely Nineteenth Century binding by Bedford. Book- plate of William Barclay Squire on the front endsheet. In a folding cloth box with morocco labels.

Cambridge: Bedford, 1633

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Burr, Agnes Rush. RUSSELL H. CONWELL AND HIS WORK. One Man's Interpretation Of Life. With Dr. Conwell's Famous Lecture, "Acres Of Diamonds".
8vo (6" x 8 1/2"). 438 pages. Red imitation leather-grain fabrikoid binding, gilt lettering on spine and front board (hardcover binding). Illustrated. Not indexed. Book is housed in a red fabrikoid-covered slipcase. CONDITION: Presentation inscription from the registrar of Temple University on front pastedown endpaper, dated 1946, else Near Fine, clean, bright book, in Near Fine slipcase. Handsome copy. Though copyrighted 1926, this is a copy of the 1943 commemorative edition which was printed for Temple University to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dr. Conwell's birth. This edition includes a new foreword by Robert Livingston Johnson, president of Temple University). Biography of Dr. Russell H. Conwell (1843-1925), Baptist minister, lawyer, Union officer during the Civil War, writer, orator, philanthropist, and founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. Two chapters (pages 112-134) cover Conwell's Civil War service. He served with the 46th Massachusetts Volunteers during his first enlistment and with the 2nd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery in the second enlistment, rising to the rank of Lt.-Colonel. Most of his service was spent in North Carolina at New Bern and Fort Macon. The last four pages cover his experiences on the staff of General McPherson and the wounds he received at the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain (where he was severely wounded and left for dead on the battlefield before being found the next day and taken to a hospital near Marietta, Ga.).. Philadelphia, PA: The John C. Winston Company, Publishers. [1943]. "Authorized Edition" (reprint edition).

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Hoffman, Daniel: PAUL BUNYAN: Last of the Frontier Demigods, Temple University Publications 1966
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DJ in new mylar, chipped, one small stain on back. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight. Tan boards, brown and gilt lettering. A little faint foxing to endpapers. First published in 1952 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this is the 1966 reissue by Columbia University Press for Temple University Publications. It is the definitive study of an American legend. The author has uncovered the authentic though slender basis in folk tradition for the later surprising adventures of the lumberjack hero. Good Cloth

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