[Inlaid Binding] Kelly, R. Talbot. Egypt: Painted & Described. Private Press The head of the bindery

The head of the bindery generally established the design and specified the materials

who was married to folklorist and poet Seamus MacManus

Designed and printed by Carolyn Hammer at the Hammers' Stamperia del Santuccio private press

Full black and deep red morocco doublures with three gilt rules and three inlaid dots at each corner

[signed] HHH"

[Inlaid Binding] Kelly, R. Talbot. Egypt: Painted & Described. Private Press The head of the binderyKelly, R. Talbot. Egypt Painted & Described. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902. First edition. 4to. Top edge gilt; pp. xiii, 239. 75 colored plates, captioned tissue guard to each. An A & C Black classic; the Irish Egyptologist's and painter's book, based on his life with Bedouin tribes. Inman 19. Bound for Brentano's of Paris (almost assuredly by Birdsall of Northampton) in three quarter dark blue morocco over light blue cloth boards ruled in gilt.