8vo. vii, [1], 298 pp., 8 black & white plates including a frontis, half-title, contemporary green half calf, title gilt, extremities rubbed, marbled endpapers and outer edges, spine darkened and label chipped, bookplates of Sir George White - Baronet and Military Collection Anne S.K. Brown verso front cover, endpapers detached, otherwise copy clean inside and in very good condition, Chapman and Hall, London, first edition, 1887.

Synopsis

Alfred Joshua Bulter, was an English historian, educated at Oxford, became a fellow of Brasenose College in 1877 and received his doctorate in 1902. He wrote a number of works on Egypt that spanned from the Coptic era to the medieval period, including his Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt
(Oxford, 1884) and the acclaimed ‘The Arab Conquest of Egypt’ (Oxford, 1902). Coptic Encyclopaedia.