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No copies will be sold, except to those who may become subscribers at a
future time; and in such cases the amount of the sale will be carried to the account
of the society, of which an annual statement will be laid before the subscribers.
A copy will be deposited in the British Museum, another in the King's Library
at Paris, a third in the Vatican, and a fourth in the Academical Library of
Gottingen. Other public libraries will be admissible as subscribers, it not being
intended to limit in any manner the description of persons subscribing, nor the
number of copies which they may wish to take, upon similar terms. The ma-
nagement of the work, and any further proceedings of the Society, which may
be thought advisable, will rest entirely with the Directors, who will also have
the power of making, from time to time, such additions to their own number as
they may think proper. For the present, Taylor Combe, Esq. William
Hamilton, Esq. Lieut. Col. Leake, the Earl of Mountnorris, and
Matthew Raper, Esq. have undertaken the reponsibility of this office.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST FASCICULUS.
It will be obvious, from the statement of the expenses attending the execution
of the first fasciculus of the Collection of Hieroglyphics, that the number of names,
hitherto put down as subscribers, is not sufficient to justify the Treasurer in in-
creasing its magnitude to more than 15 plates; but as 200 copies have been
printed, and as no means have been taken to obtain any thing like publicity for
the work, there is every reason to suppose that contributors may hereafter be
found, to take off the whole of the impression ; and in that case the number of
plates in the subsequent fasciculi will be considerably increased, though their
annual completion may perhaps be liable to occasional irregularities.
The general subjects of the Hieroglyphical Inscriptions, which they contain,
may be collected from an article on Egypt, which is about to appear in the
Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The first six exhibit a
tolerably perfect specimen of the manuscripts frequently found witli mummies,
which always contain a series of homages, addressed to the different deities in
the name of the deceased : the next subject consists of frizes brought from Egypt,
and now in the British Museum, compared with another fragment of the same
series found in the ruins of Rome. The colossal head, which has lately been
presented to the British Museum in the names of Mr. Salt and Mr. Burckhardl,
occupies the greater part of the 10th plate; and the subjects delineated in the
five following plates are more or less immediately connected with this figure,
exhibiting either the name, which is still distinguishable in the inscription on the
back, or that of Memnon, whom the head has sometimes been supposed to re-
present, or some other name approaching very near in its form to one or the
other of these two.
No copies will be sold, except to those who may become subscribers at a
future time; and in such cases the amount of the sale will be carried to the account
of the society, of which an annual statement will be laid before the subscribers.
A copy will be deposited in the British Museum, another in the King's Library
at Paris, a third in the Vatican, and a fourth in the Academical Library of
Gottingen. Other public libraries will be admissible as subscribers, it not being
intended to limit in any manner the description of persons subscribing, nor the
number of copies which they may wish to take, upon similar terms. The ma-
nagement of the work, and any further proceedings of the Society, which may
be thought advisable, will rest entirely with the Directors, who will also have
the power of making, from time to time, such additions to their own number as
they may think proper. For the present, Taylor Combe, Esq. William
Hamilton, Esq. Lieut. Col. Leake, the Earl of Mountnorris, and
Matthew Raper, Esq. have undertaken the reponsibility of this office.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST FASCICULUS.
It will be obvious, from the statement of the expenses attending the execution
of the first fasciculus of the Collection of Hieroglyphics, that the number of names,
hitherto put down as subscribers, is not sufficient to justify the Treasurer in in-
creasing its magnitude to more than 15 plates; but as 200 copies have been
printed, and as no means have been taken to obtain any thing like publicity for
the work, there is every reason to suppose that contributors may hereafter be
found, to take off the whole of the impression ; and in that case the number of
plates in the subsequent fasciculi will be considerably increased, though their
annual completion may perhaps be liable to occasional irregularities.
The general subjects of the Hieroglyphical Inscriptions, which they contain,
may be collected from an article on Egypt, which is about to appear in the
Supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The first six exhibit a
tolerably perfect specimen of the manuscripts frequently found witli mummies,
which always contain a series of homages, addressed to the different deities in
the name of the deceased : the next subject consists of frizes brought from Egypt,
and now in the British Museum, compared with another fragment of the same
series found in the ruins of Rome. The colossal head, which has lately been
presented to the British Museum in the names of Mr. Salt and Mr. Burckhardl,
occupies the greater part of the 10th plate; and the subjects delineated in the
five following plates are more or less immediately connected with this figure,
exhibiting either the name, which is still distinguishable in the inscription on the
back, or that of Memnon, whom the head has sometimes been supposed to re-
present, or some other name approaching very near in its form to one or the
other of these two.