Details

Subject(s)

• Hieroglyphics—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mummies—Private collections—England [Browse]
• Egyptian language—Writing, Hieroglyphic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Inscriptions, Egyptian—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Gordon, Alexander, 1692?-1754? [Browse]

Engraver

• Gordon, Alexander, 1692?-1754? [Browse]
• Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776 [Browse]
• Baron, Bernard, 1696-1762 [Browse]
• Vertue, George, 1684-1756 [Browse]

Former owner

• Macclesfield, Earls of [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Copper engravings—Great Britain—England—18th century [Browse]

Contained in

Multi-title collection including An essay towards explaining the hieroglyphical figures, on the coffin of the ancient mummy belonging to Capt. William Lethieullier. and 1 other(s).

Notes

• Includes: 'An essay towards explaining the antient hieroglyphical figures, on the Egyptian mummy, in the museum of Doctor Mead', with separate titlepage, pagination and register, and 25 leaves of copperplate engravings.
• With a final advertisement leaf: 'The two preceding essays being design'd to explain three of the twenty-five copper-plates already deliver'd to subscribers, an explanation of the remaining prints will come forth' ...
• The plates are after Gordon's drawings and are engraved by Gordon, Gerard Van Der Gucht, W. Morgan, G. King, Bernard Baron, George Vertue, and James Smith. "The two preceding essays being design'd to explain three of the twenty-five copper-plates already deliver'd to subscribers, an explanation of the remaining prints will come forth with all convenient speed"--Advertisement to the reader. No more published.

With

Princeton copy 1 bound with: Proposals for engraving and publishing by subscription, a supplement to Montfaucon's Egyptian Antiquities / by Alexander Gordon. London : [publisher not identified], 1733. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Binding note

Princeton copy 1: Bound in contemporary one-quarter vellum over pasteboards.

Language note

Pamphlets in English; plate captions in Latin.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1: From the library of the Earls of Macclesfield, with armorial armorial bookplate (dated 1860) on front pastedown and blind stamp on first three leaves.

References

ESTC T114288

Other title(s)

Essay towards explaining the antient hieroglyphical figures, on the Egyptian mummy, in the museum of Doctor Mead.

In

Multi-title collection including An essay towards explaining the hieroglyphical figures, on the coffin of the ancient mummy belonging to Capt. William Lethieullier. and 1 other(s).

OCLC

876831570

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