Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Chaldaean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and other writers;: with an Introductory Dissertation: and an Enquiry into the Philosophy and Trinity of the Ancients

London: William Pickering,, 1832. Second edition, following the first of 1826. "The revised 1832 edition of the work, often known affectionately as Cory's, was reprinted unchanged in every decade of the mid century. It was aimed at the trained antiquarian and consisted of parallel texts of Greek remnants of ancient literature with their English translations. It was universalist in ambition, though small in scale" (Gange, p. 140). Cory was the son and heir of Robert Cory FSA, an attorney at Great Yarmouth and mayor of the town in 1815. "His father's library of topographical, architectural, and miscellaneous works was sold on the latter's death in 1840. Cory was educated at the grammar schools at Saffron Walden and Norwich before matriculating at Clare College, Cambridge, in 1820... In 1821 he migrated to Gonville and Caius College, where he was elected to a scholarship in 1822. Graduating BA in 1824... and MA in 1827, he was elected in 1824 to a fellowship of Caius, which he held until his death. He was Hebrew lecturer at Caius from 1839 to 1841. His chief academic work was a compilation of Ancient fragments of the Phoenician, Chaldean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and other writers (2nd edn, 1832; rev. edn, 1876). In 1832 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn" (ODNB). Octavo (215 x 129 mm). Contemporary polished calf, decorative gilt spine, green label, sides with panel of paired gilt fillets and corner rosettes. Pickering's wood-engraved device to title page. Joints cracked, front joint expertly stabilized, rear joint firm on the cords, corners a little worn, a few marks to covers, internally clean. A handsomely bound copy. Keynes, Pickering Checklist, p. 26. David Gange, Dialogues with the Dead: Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922, 2013.