OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS, INCLUDING THEIR PRIVATE LIFE, GOVERNMENT, LAWS, ARTS, MANUFACTURES, DERIVED FROM A COMPARISON OF THE PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, AND MONUMENTS STILL EXISTING, Illustrated by Drawings of those Subjects. By J. G. WILKINSON, F.R.S. M.R.S.L. &c. AUTHOR OF "A GENERAL VIEW OF EGYPT, AND IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXXXVII. ΤΟ HIS GRACE HUGH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G. &c. &c. MY LORD DUKE, IN dedicating to your Grace the accompanying Work, I am anxious to show how fully I appreciate the encouragement you have always given to science and literature, as well as the interest you take in Egyptian researches; and to offer a testimony of my respect, and of the gratitude I feel for much personal kindness and attention. I have the honour to subscribe myself Your Grace's very obedient humble Servant, London, September 1. 1836. THE AUTHOR. |