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The Letters Of Peter Le Page Renouf 1822-1897: London 1864-97
Peter Le Pag Renouf
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Cathcart, Kevin J. Num Pages: 500 pages, 2 b&w plates. BIC Classification: BGHA; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 44. Weight in Grams: 894.
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as 'the most learned Englishman I know'. The remarkable collection of his surviving letters, published in four volumes by University College Dublin Press between 2002 and 2004, covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. This fourth and final volume covers Renouf's life in London from 1864 until his death in 1897. For ... Read more
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as 'the most learned Englishman I know'. The remarkable collection of his surviving letters, published in four volumes by University College Dublin Press between 2002 and 2004, covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. This fourth and final volume covers Renouf's life in London from 1864 until his death in 1897. For ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558033
SKU
V9781904558033
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Reviews for The Letters Of Peter Le Page Renouf 1822-1897: London 1864-97
"This four volume collection of letters is now complete and will be a lasting monument to Renouf ... Professor Cathcart applies his scholarship with great attention to the details of matters ecclesiastical as well as Egyptylogical ... the writer of the letter is identified, the text to each letter is set out and notes appear at its foot ... each ... Read more