The Works of Sir William Jones

London: John Stockdale, 1807. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A complete thirteen volume set of the works of British philologist, Sir William Jones. Thirteen volumes. The works of Sir William Jones, a British philologist, orientalist, puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India. He is best known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which later came to be known as the Indo-European languages. This set includes: Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence of Sir William Jones, in two volumes. A Discourse Delivered at a Meeting of the Asiatick Society, in Calcutta, on the twenty-second of May 1794. Illustrated with twenty plates, one of which folds-out. On the Chronology of the Hindus, written in January 1788. Illustrated with seven plates, four of which fold-out. The Design of a Treatise on the Plants of India. Illustrated with four plates, three of which fold-out. Poeseos Asiaticae Commentariorum Libri Sex, Cum Appendice; Subjicitur Limon, Seu Miscellaneorum Liber. Illustrated with four plates. The Moallakat, or Seven Arabian Poems. The Laws of Menu, Son of Brahma. The Speeches of Isaeus in Causes Concerning the Law of Succession to Property in Athens. The Poem of Amriolkais. Illustrated with one fold-out plate. Histoire de Nader Chah, in two volumes. Hiopadesa of Vishnusarman. Bound in beautiful and ornate contemporary full Regency calf with marbled edges and endpapers. Externally, smart with only light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor loss to the rear board of volume 2. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. A beautiful set in a special Regency binding. Very Good