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Description
Here are translations of Egyptian love lyrics, dating from the period c. 1600–1085 B.C., some with hieroglyphic transcriptions. Pictures are copies of ancient Egyptian tomb paintings.
Credits
Illustrator: John L. Foster (hieroglyphs) and Nina M. Davies (paintings)
Production manager: Al Yokum
Translator: John L. Foster
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Pages: 144
Quantity printed: edition of 5,000
Price: $10.00
Typeface: Linotype Caledonia, 11/20, with display in Linotype Caledonia Bold and foundry Bulmer
Typesetters: V & M Typgraphical, Inc., Photo Typositor Augustea Inline , TypoGraphics Communications, Inc.
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: sheet-fed offset
Jacket printer: The Chaucer Press, Inc.
Paper: Glatfelter Vellum Offset, 70 lb., Natural
Paper supplies: Perkins & Squier Company
Binder: Halliday
Binding materials: bound in G.S.B. 96 Silver Black on 80 pt. binder’s board
Endpapers: Multicolor Antique (Process Materials) Cayenne
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Jacket: Chroma (Strathmore) Ivory
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York, New York)
