An ornate woodcut headpiece depicting a central basket of flowers, with symmetrical scrolling foliage and floral arrangements on either side. Below this, a large decorative initial "L" features a woodcut scene of a tree in a landscape.

THE

FABLES

EGYPTIAN

AND

GREEK

Unveiled, & reduced to the same principle

with an explanation of the Hieroglyphs, In this 18th-century context, "Hieroglyphs" refers not only to Egyptian script but to any symbolic or allegorical imagery used to hide philosophical or chemical secrets.

& of the Trojan War.

PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.

The great number of Authors who have written on the Hieroglyphs of the Egyptians, & on the Fables to which they have given rise, are so contradictory original: "contraires." The author is highlighting the lack of consensus among previous scholars. to one another, that one may with reason regard their works as new Fables. However well imagined, however well coordinated as...