Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society … of the University of Pennsylvania to Translate the Inscription on the Rosetta Stone

Charles Reuben Hale (1837-1900), Henry Morton (1836-1902), Samuel Huntington Jones (1837-1894)

Report of the Committee appointed by the Philomathean Society … of the University of Pennsylvania to Translate the Inscription on the Rosetta Stone

Philadelphia, PA

The Society and L.N. Rosenthal

1858, first edition, 400 copies

Previous ownership marks: Robert H Sayre and Anna Lloyd Reilly.

First edition of the first complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone and one of the first books entirely produced by chromolithography in America. Facsimile of an illuminated manuscript prepared by members of the Philomathean Society Committee of the University of Pennsylvania. Illustrated with text and scenes representing Egyptian life by Philadelphia based printer Louis Rosenthal. On view is a copy of a drawing of the Stone in the British Museum by Charles Hale, one of the authors.