Encouraged by these successes, he, in 1817, made a second journey to Upper Egypt and Nubia, and brought to light at Carnac several colossal heads of granite, now in the British Museum.

After some further explorations among the tombs and temples, for which he was liberally paid by Mr.Salt, Belzoni returned to England with numerous drawings, casts, and many important works of Egyptian art.
He called upon Mr.Murray, with the view of publishing the results of his investigations, which in due course were issued under the title of "Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia." It was a very expensive book to arrange and publish, but nothing daunted Mr.Murray when a new and original work was brought under his notice.
Although only 1,000 copies were printed, the payments to Belzoni and his translators, as well as for plates and engravings, amounted to over L2,163.

The preparation of the work gave rise to no little difficulty, for Belzoni declined all help beyond that of the individual who was employed to copy out or translate his manuscript and correct the press.
"As I make my discoveries alone," he said, "I have been anxious to write my book by myself, though in so doing the reader will consider me, with great propriety, guilty of temerity; but the public will, perhaps, gain in the fidelity of my narration what it loses in elegance." Lord Byron, to whom Mr.Murray sent a copy of his work, said: "Belzoni _is_ a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken." Belzoni was a very interesting character, and a man of great natural refinement.

After the publication of his work, he became one of the fashionable lions of London, but was very sensitive about his early career, and very sedulous to sink the posture-master in the traveller.
He was often present at Mr.Murray's receptions; and on one particular occasion he was invited to join the family circle in Albemarle Street on the last evening of 1822, to see the Old Year out and the New Year in.
All Mr.Murray's young people were present, as well as the entire D'Israeli family and Crofton Croker.

After a merry game of Pope Joan, Mr.Murray presented each of the company with a pocket-book as a New Year's gift.