The Egyptians in the Time of the Pharaohs, Being a Compan...
Wilkinson, John Gardner / Birch, Samuel This 1857 work was published as 'a companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collections', and includes an introduction to Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Crystal Palace at Sydenham housed a permanent collection of Egyptian antiquities, upon which Wilkinson draws in his highly illustrated account of the domestic life of the Egyptians.