title: The Lost Manuscript of Frdric Cailliaud: Arts and Crafts of the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, and Ethiopians
author: Andrew Bednarski
description: <br />"Magnificently-produced and illustrated. . . . This book gives its readers a unique opportunity to view Cailliaud's masterpieces, and is a worthy tribute to a great Egyptologist of the past."--Ancient Egypt
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  Quite a Lost Art  
    
  
  
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  # Quite a Lost Art
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  "What have you there?" said Robinson. "The draft of a deed or of a last will
  and testament?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Nothing of the sort," replied Brown, "but an odd sort of story in
  manuscript."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Ancient?"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "By no means. When I took these lodgings I found it in the cupboard, which had
  not been opened for several months, and the landlady recognised the
  handwriting of a former occupant, who, constantly kept at home by stress of
  weather, was driven to amuse himself by reading all day long the books of an
  old-fashioned circulating library. The library is now shut up, but I found the
  catalogue in company with the manuscript. Here it is."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Ah, I see! Manfrone, the One-handed Monk--Romance of the Pyrenees. The books
  bel