Description
Memoirs of The Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, Lord Teignmouth, From the Classic Press, William Poyntell & Co., Philadelphia, 1805, frontispiece, letter press engraving, 419 pp, 102 pp, full leather, 9 x 6”, 8vo. In good condition. Leather nicely preserved, soft and rich in color. Light wear to extremities. Minimal creasing to spine. End papers toned with moderate foxing. Old hand ownership on fly leaf dated 1805. Light staining and toning to frontispiece. Interior has mild age toning. Free of known markings. Scattered foxing throughout. Binding tight and intact. A solid copy! Please see photos. First American edition. Jones was a judge of the high court at Calcutta from 1783 until his death in 1794, and a respected authority on Indian languages, philosophy and literature. He founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784, and was the first to discover the relationship between the Sanskrit, Gothic, Greek and Latin languages, and "His clear understanding of the basic principles of scientific linguistics provided the foundation on which Rask, Bopp, and Grimm built the imposing structure of comparative Indo- European studies" COLH1805ABGK
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