LUXOR and its Temples - Aylward Manley Blackman First edition 1923
About the Book: - A RARE find especially a First Edition in Dust Jacket. 
Alwayd Manley Blackman writes in the preface: ”It was as long ago as December 1913 when Major Fletcher was staying with me in my camp at Meir, in Asynt province, that he and I first discussed the possibility of bringing out together a popularly written account of life as led by the inhabitants of ancient Thebes, I supplying he text and he the illustrations. Upon the outbreak of the great War any idea we entertained of such an undertaking was inevitably given up. However, the interest aroused by the late Lord Carnarvon and Mr Howard Carter’s discovery in the Valley of the Tombs and the Kings brought the old project back to our minds; and when Major Fletcher was approached by Messrs A. and C. Black on the subject of producing a book about Luxor, to which he was to supply the illustrations, he at once wrote to me asking me to do what I had often talked about doing with him in the past. Hence this book, which is hoped will convince its readers that Egyptology is not a dreary study, but is full of human interest-is, in fact, concerned rather with life and beauty than with mummies and other dusty trophies of death. To Professor Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie and other friends I tender my sincere thanks for kindly permitting me to use illustrations from their published works. In conclusion, let me say that it will give me no little satisfaction if this small volume, so admirably illustrated by Major Flecther’s pencil drawings, succeeds as it is intended to so, in increasing the interest of the general public in Ancient Egypt, and to the Egypt Exploration Society, under the auspices of which a great part of my research work in Egypt has been conducted.” 
 
Book Type: Beige cloth Hard Back with dust jacket
Genre: Archaeology, History, Travel 
Edition: First Edition 1923. 
Published: A.C. Black Ltd, 4-6 Soho Square, London W1.
ISBN: Pre ISBN numbering.
Size: 21x 14cm
Pages: 200 pages 
Illustrations By Major Benton Fletcher. Illustrated with 24 full page plates from drawings and 50 sepia drawings.
 
Contents
Table of Dates
1 Life in Ancient Luxor 
2 How Thebes Became the Capital of Egypt
3 Thebes, The World’s First Monumental City 
4 Some Greta Kings in Time of War 
5 A Famous Queen 
6 Poems, Songs and Romances
7 Some Funerary Temples
Bibliography
Index
CONDITION:
Dust Jacket: Very good condition occasion creasing and tearing to edges.
Covers: Beige Boards are overall strong with wear marks to front and back and scuffing and bumping wear to the outer edges. 
Binding: Tight with a slight lean
Spine: The title on spine is faded but dust jacket is good .
Some Foxing to front free end and rear and preliminary pages as well as extreme outer edges of pages.
All pages complete. In very good condition bright and clean. 
Back Story and Biography.
“Aylward Manley Blackman, FBA (30 January 1883 – 9 March 1956)[1] was a British Egyptologist, who excavated various sites in Egypt and Nubia, notably Buhen and Meir. Having taught at Worcester College, Oxford, he was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1934 to 1948. He was additionally a special lecturer at the University of Manchester, and was involved in or led a number of excavations with the Egypt Exploration Society. Blackman was born in Dawlish, Devon, the eldest son of Rev. James Henry Blackman and Mary Anne Blackman (née Jacob) He was educated at home and his interest in archaeology was inspired by his father, a keen amateur archaeologist who created archaeological digs by burying home-made 'tablets' for his children to discover. Aylward's oldest sister, Winifred Susan Blackman, (1872–1950), also became an Egyptologist. He joined St Paul's School at the age of sixteen and gained a scholarship to study at Queen's College, Oxford. At Oxford, Blackman was a pupil of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, and graduated with a First Class degree in Oriental Studies in 1906. Blackman was appointed the Oxford Nubian Research Fellow and assisted Griffith in his excavation of Farras.From 1934 to 1948, he was the Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. He died in 1956 in Abergele. Courtesy of Wikipedia
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