Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chipping, decorated boards with a black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, 704 pages. 14 pages of b&w plates in front section, b&w diagrams and illustrations throughout. There was no single or canonical Book of the Dead. The surviving papyri contain a varying selection of religious and magical texts and vary considerably in their illustration. Some people seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. The finest extant example of the Egyptian in antiquity is the Papyrus of Ani. Ani was an Egyptian scribe. It was discovered in Luxor in 1888 by Egyptians trading in illegal antiquities. It was acquired by E. A. Wallis Budge and was taken to the British Museum, where it remains. Name stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
 "The Book of the Dead by: E. A. Wallis Budge")
