Book of the Dead and Elysian Fields

(Field of Reeds - actual)

By A. Gaddis & G. Seif

 

Published in Egypt sometime between the First and Second World Wars this book was titled 'Book of the Dead and Elysian Fields'. Some references date the publication from as early as 1925 but the book itself is not dated.

The plates are based on black and white photographs of scenes from many of the tombs in the Thebes area. These photographs were hand coloured from memory for reproduction.