The first English translation of Freud’s final work, complete with the extremely rare and unusual pictorial dust jacket, ‘an anthropological and psychoanalytical study of the rise of Judaism, which he rooted in the monotheistic worship of the Egyptian sun-god Aten; and an examination of the significance of religion in general’ (Norman).

An American edition was published later in the same year, which is far more commonly encountered than the present Hogarth Press edition. The majority of Freud’s books published by the Hogarth Press before the War appeared in highly distinctive, uniform typographic dust jackets printed on extremely thin green paper stock. This striking pictorial dust jacket is therefore quite unusual.