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 / By the Revd. Mr. Spence.

  • Joseph Spence
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1747
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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 / By the Revd. Mr. Spence. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1747.

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xii, 361, that is, 363 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XLI [i.e. XLII] leaves of plates : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait) ; (folio)

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Notes

This edition is known to exist in at least three states: in state 1, leaf Kk1 is missigned k1 and p. 269 has press figure 1 at foot; in state 2, leaf Kk1 is missigned k1 and p. 269 lacks press figure 1 at foot; in state 3, leaf Kk1 is signed correctly and p. 269 has press figure 1 at foot
HRC copies 1-3 are state 1, copy 4 is state 2 and copy 5 is state 3
Numbers 155-156 are repeated in pagination
Frontispiece portrait is unnumbered
Engraved tail-pieces
Includes indexes
"Directions for the binder" and "Errata"--P. [1] at end

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ESTC t133753
ESTC T133753

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