page_title: William Price (orientalist)
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: William Price (orientalist) / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Lithograph of Persepolis from the south, from William Price, A Journal of the British Embassy to Persia, embellished with numerous Views taken in India and Persia; also a Dissertation upon the Antiquities of Persepolis (1825).
context_page_description: William Price was an English orientalist.
context_section_description: Price kept a diary in Persia, and made hundreds of drawings, of landscapes and buildings. He deciphered many cuneiform inscriptions. He published:
  Dialogues Persans, composés pour l'auteur par Mirza Saulih de Chiraz, no date or place, republished, with an English translation, Worcester, 1822, and again as part iii. of:
  A Grammar of the Three Principal Oriental Languages, Hindoostanee, Persian, and Arabic, on a Plan entirely new, London, 1823.
  A Journal of the British Embassy to Persia, embellished with numerous Views taken in India and Persia; also a Dissertation upon the Antiquities of Persepolis, London, 1825. A second edition contained Elements of Sanskrit, or an Easy Guide to the Indian Tongues, Worcester, 1827; London, 1832. It was illustrated by Price's drawings.
  A new Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language, issued under the auspices of the East India Company, London, 1828.
  Husn oo Dil, or Beauty and Heart: an Allegory, Persian and English, translated by Price, London, 1828; dedicated to the Royal Asiatic Society.
  Hindu and Hindoostanee Selections, from which material was drawn for the Chants populaires de l'Inde (1860) of Garcin de Tassy.
caption: Persepolis from the South (1825), from A Journal of the British Embassy to Persia by William Price
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