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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Stated Revised Edition (1991). Includes Bibliographical References. The Book Is Bound In Gray Cloth With White Stamped Lettering On The Front And Spine. Inscribed "To Jane, Hope You Enjoy This Labor Of Love. You've Been Such An Inspiration To Me. Thank You For Your Gracious And Hearty Welcome To St. Louis") And Signed By One Of The Authors (Kirby Lewis Colson) The Author Uses His First Name Only. Former Owner's Signature On The Ffep. The Jacket Has A One Inch Tear At The Lower Back Edge Near The Spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

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Hardcover. Revised Edition. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. ; 10 X 9.76 X 0.79 inches; 208 pages.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing, 1976. As new & unread with tight/unopened binding. Dark brown genuine leather, all gilt edges, ribbon marker, silk moire endpapers, illustrated. See photos.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Full red leather, elaborately decorated with embossed gold cover and spine. 6 3/4 X 10 1/2 inches,233 pages. Silk end papers, illustrated with black and white drawings throughout by William Sharp. Original color portrait by Robert Shore. Four double page views in black and white proceeding the title page. Fine with original bookmark.

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A New Edition. Octavo (13.6 cm wide x 21.3 cm high). XIV, [3], 636 pages including an Appendix. Hardcover / Original, very decorative half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Bining a bit rubbed but overall in a firm and very good condition with only minor signs of wear. The interior in bright and excellent condition. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. This splendid Volume includes besides the thoroughly listed Correspondence with important contemporaries of Jones an Appendix. The Appendix includes: 1. Ode "On the death of Sir William Jones2, by Jones' friend, her Grace, Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (née Spencer). 2. The design of "Britain Discovered", an Heroic Poem in twelve Books 3. "Britain Discovered" an Heroic Poem [with elements on Druidism] 4. A Prefatory Discourse to 'An Essay on the History of the Turks'" 5. De Graecis Oratoribus 6. Terzetti 7. An Ode of Jami 8. A Song from the Persian 9. Plassey Plain; a Ballad 10. Verses on seeing Miss *** ride by him without knowing her 11. Au Firmament 12. A Song / Sketch of Tragedy / Fac-simile of the Writing of Sir William Jones [Missing]/ Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 27 April 1794) was a Welsh philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster, London to Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William and also became a scholar of ancient Indian history. He is known for being one of the earliest scholars to assert the kinship of the Indo-European languages, albeit not the first. Jones also founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta in 1784. William Jones was born in London; his father William Jones (16751749) was a mathematician from Anglesey in Wales, noted for introducing the use of the symbol p. The young William Jones was a linguistic prodigy, who in addition to his native languages English and Welsh, learned Greek, Latin, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew and the basics of Chinese writing at an early age. By the end of his life, he knew eight languages with critical thoroughness. Jones's father died when he was aged three, and his mother Mary Nix Jones raised him. He was sent to Harrow School in September 1753 and then went on to University College, Oxford. He graduated there in 1768 and became M.A. in 1773. Financially constrained, he took a position tutoring the seven-year-old Lord Althorp, son of Earl Spencer. For the next six years, he worked as a tutor and translator. During this time he published in 1770 Histoire de Nader Chah ("History of Nader Shah"), a French translation of a work originally written in Persian by Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi. This was done at the request of King Christian VII of Denmark: he had visited Jones, who by the age of 23 had already acquired a reputation as an orientalist, and in appreciation of his work he was granted membership in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. This would be the first of his numerous works on Persia, Anatolia, and the Middle East in general. In 1770, Jones joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, a preliminary to his life-work in India. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 30 April 1772. In 1773, he was elected a member of The Club, of which he became president in 1780. He spent some time as a circuit judge in Wales, and then became involved in politics: he made a fruitless attempt to resolve the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, and ran for the post of Member of Parliament from Oxford in the general election of 1780, but was unsuccessful. Jones was a radical political thinker, and a friend of American independence. His work, The principles of government; in a dialogue between a scholar and a peasant (1783), was the subject of a trial for seditious libel (known as the Case of the Dean of St Asaph) after it was reprinted by his brother-in-law William Davies Shipley. He was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta, Bengal, on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted. In April 1783 he married Anna Maria Shipley, the eldest daughter of Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of St Asaph. Anna Maria used her artistic skills to help Jones document life in India. On 25 September 1783, he arrived in Calcutta. In the Subcontinent he was entranced by Indian culture, an as-yet untouched field in European scholarship, and on 15 January 1784 he founded the Asiatic Society in Calcutta. He studied the Vedas with Ramalocana, a pandit teaching at the Hindu University of Nadiya, becoming a proficient Sanskritist. Jones kept up a ten-year correspondence on the topic of jyotisa or Hindu astronomy with fellow orientalist Samuel Davis. He learnt the ancient concept of Hindu Laws from Pandits. Over the next ten years, he produced a flood of works on India, launching the modern study of the subcontinent in virtually every social science. He also wrote on the Hindu and Muslim laws, music, literature, botany, and geography, and made the first English translations of several important works of Indian literature. Sir William Jones sometimes also went by the nom de plume Youns Uksfardi ("Jones of Oxford"). This pen name can be seen on the inner front cover of his Persian Grammar published in 1771 (and in subsequent editions). Jones's works, especially his translations, with their philological and anthropological appeal, became a major inspiration of a certain orientalist strain discernible in Romantic poetries such as Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" or Fitzgerald's "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam". He died in Calcutta on 27 April 1794 at the age of 47 and is buried in South Park Street Cemetery. Jones is known today for his propositions about relationships between the Indo-European languages. In his Third Anniversary Discourse to the Asiatic Society (1786) he suggested that Sanskrit, G.