Complete and unabridged, with 42 full-page plates by Hubert Robert, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. An Egyptian household in the reign of Thutmose, a sacred cat killed by accident, and the flight that follows. Henty wrote more than a hundred boys' historical novels, each researched from the standard authorities, and taught the British Empire its history more thoroughly than any schoolmaster. This edition binds 42 plates of painting with the text, among them Roman capriccios and ruins by Panini, Amorosi and Paltronieri, alongside six illustrations restored and coloured for this volume.

G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent born in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. He reported the Austro-Italian, Franco-Prussian and Ashanti campaigns for the Standard and wrote some hundred and twenty boys' historical novels. His works include With Clive in India, The Cat of Bubastes, Under Drake's Flag, and With Lee in Virginia.