I am needing a check on this reference:

From the 1883 Egyptian Exploration Fund proposal: “In Saqqara, he would examine the peribolus wall of the Step Pyramid to see if it threw light on the date of the pyramid; this would take a week” (Drower 1985: 69).

Is this page number correct and is this quote there?

I would like to own this biography but it costs a fortune!

PS there is a nice copy of Breasted's A History of Egypt for £20 at my bookshop - nice blue hardback copy from 1909. If anyone has a great desire for a copy it is there.

I would have bought it but at the time it was published B&W photography was coming in, so all the old etchings and diagrams were abandoned in favour of lots of photos. As modern photos are so much better, the book is a little dull with lots of B&W photos and no nice works of art. The content is probably pretty good though.

Dave Light.