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English edition
Sep
2010
304 pp.
252 color illus.
flexibound
21X29.5 cm
$39.95
LE 200.00
ISBN
978 977 416 410 1
For sale only in the Middle East and North America
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Egypt
Yesterday and Today
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Lithographs and diaries by
David Roberts, R.A.
Text by
Fabio Bourbon
Photographs by
Antonio Attini
David Roberts, one of the most skilled landscape artists of his time, set out for Egypt in 1838, where he made countless sketches of the most remarkable sites and monuments during the course of his eleven-month journey through Egypt, Sinai, and the Levant.
Superb lithographs made from his work, first published between 1846 and 1848, are richly reproduced here in resplendent color, along with Roberts’s diary accounts of his travels along the Nile Valley from Alexandria to the fabulous Abu Simbel temples. Each illustration is accompanied by a photograph showing the same view more than 150 years later.
Fabio Bourbon’s lucid essay introduces anew this nineteenth-century fine artist and contextualizes his images for the modern reader.
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“In Egypt: Yesterday And Today, author Fabio Bourbon and photographer Antonio Attini collaborate to bring Roberts' work to the attention of a whole new generation of appreciative readers in this 287 page compendium showcasing his beautifully rendered lithographs along side Roberts’ journal entries. The result is simply outstanding, making Egypt: Yesterday And Today a welcome and highly recommended core addition to personal, professional, and academic library Egyptology reference collections and supplemental reading lists.”—Wisconsin Bookwatch and Midwest Book Review
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