Second edition, signed by the authors. Philadelphia: S.N. Rosenthal, 1859
152 numbered pages. 7 x 8.75 inches
A very good copy, complete and in original covers, of the second edition of this volume, a combination of scholarly and artistic achievement. This work, prepared by three undergraduate members of the Philomathean Society at the University of Pennsylvania, was the first complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone. Working from a plaster cast of the Rosetta Stone, Philo members Henry Morton, Charles Hale, and S. Huntington Jones took nearly a year to complete this work, which met with worldwide praise and recognition.
Charles R. Hale translated the Greek and demotic text. Samuel Huntington Jones wrote an essay about Ptolemy Epiphanes. Henry Morton handled hieroglyphic inscriptions and the pictorial decorations. The Report by these three undergraduates as the Committee is signed in ink on page [6] by all three members -- some copies are unsigned, others are signed by one member.
One of the few American books to be entirely printed by lithograph, this volume is a notable display of chromolithographic book illustration by the Philadelphia lithographer Louis Rosenthal.
Second edition, of 600 copies. Signed by the three authors on page [6].
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