Title: Polymetis: Or, An Enquiry Concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists. Author: Spence, [Joseph] Place: London Publisher: R. Dodsley Date: 1747 Description: xii, 361, [1] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 41 engraved plates including 4 folding. (Folio) 40x26 cm (15¾x10¼"), period calf. First Edition. "Although inadequate from the first, and long ago superseded, it remains an agreeable book, owing to the urbanity of its old- fashioned scholarship, the justice of some incidental observations, and its affluent stores of quotation; and, as an intellectual if heterogeneous banquet, may be compared with the ‘Deipnosophists’ of Athenæus. Gibbon speaks of its ‘taste and learning.’ ‘Polymetis’ remained Spence's only considerable contribution to classical scholarship."- DNB Lot Amendments Condition: Binding heavily worn, crudely repaired with old black cloth tape, lacking front free endpaper; frontispiece detached, some foxing and offsetting; internally very good, binding in need of restoration or replacement. Item number: 245677
Title: Polymetis: Or, An Enquiry Concerning the Agreement Between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists. Author: Spence, [Joseph] Place: London Publisher: R. Dodsley Date: 1747 Description: xii, 361, [1] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 41 engraved plates including 4 folding. (Folio) 40x26 cm (15¾x10¼"), period calf. First Edition. "Although inadequate from the first, and long ago superseded, it remains an agreeable book, owing to the urbanity of its old- fashioned scholarship, the justice of some incidental observations, and its affluent stores of quotation; and, as an intellectual if heterogeneous banquet, may be compared with the ‘Deipnosophists’ of Athenæus. Gibbon speaks of its ‘taste and learning.’ ‘Polymetis’ remained Spence's only considerable contribution to classical scholarship."- DNB Lot Amendments Condition: Binding heavily worn, crudely repaired with old black cloth tape, lacking front free endpaper; frontispiece detached, some foxing and offsetting; internally very good, binding in need of restoration or replacement. Item number: 245677
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