The Chaldean Account of Genesis

Hardcover, black textured faux leather, gryphon (dragon) in gilt on front, [xvi] + 319 pages, index; blurbs printed on endpapers, as issued; 27 b/w illustrations reproduced from ancient sources, with captions. Very scholarly. *** Copyright 1876. This facsimile reprint edition 1977. Translated, edited and explained by George Smith, an English Assyriologist. Introduction by William Q. Judge. *** Complete subtitle: 'Containing the Description of the Creation, the Fall of Man, the Deluge, the Tower of Babel, the Times of the Patriarchs, and Nimrod; Babylonian Fables, and Legends of the Gods; from the Cuneiform Inscriptions.'