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Polymetis: or, An enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets, and the remains of the antient artists. : Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In ten books. /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768
Corporate Authors: Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress), Pennsylvania State University. Library (former owner. $ TXA)
Other Authors: Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770 (Engraver), Vertue, George, 1684-1756 (Engraver), Whood, Isaac, 1688 or 1689-1752 (Illustrator), Cory, Robert, Jr., approximately 1776-1840 (former owner. $ TXA), Gunn, John, 1801-1890 (former owner. $ TXA), Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 (attributed former owner.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Latin
Language Notes:Text in English with quotations and examples in Latin.
Published: London: : Printed for R. Dodsley ..., 1747.
Subjects:
Art, Ancient > Early works to 1800.
Mythology, Classical.
Latin poetry > History and criticism > Early works to 1800.
Sculpture, Roman > Early works to 1800.
Mythology, Classical > Early works to 1800.
Art antique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Sculpture romaine > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Mythologie ancienne > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique > Ouvrages avant 1800.
Art antique.
Mythologie ancienne.
Sculpture, Roman
Art, Ancient
Latin poetry
Mythology, Classical
Latin poetry > Early works to 1800 > History and criticism
Early works to 1800.
rare books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
Subscription lists (Printing)
Subscription lists (Printing) > 18th century.
Engravings.
Etchings.
Portraits.
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Call Number: Oversize N5613 S7 1747
Notes: 19th-century armorial booksplates of Robert Cory, Jr., of Yarmouth, Norfolk, and John Gunn, A.M., of Irstead, Norfolk, and modern bookplate of Pennsylvania State University Library on front paste-down; inscrption of J. D. Hooker, M.D., Dec. 8, 1963, and another hard-to-read inscription in pencil on flyleaf. Robert Cory Jr. was involved in erecting a bridge at Yarmouth, and John Gunn was a noted geologist and paleontologist. J. D. Hooker might have been Joseph Dalton Hooker, who had an M.D. but who specialized in botany.
 
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