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

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The instance 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 represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

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

Title remainder

Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In ten books.

Statement of responsibility

By the Revd. Mr. Spence

Instantiates

• 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.

Publication

• London, Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's-Head, Pall-Mall, M.DCC.XLVII 1747

Note

• Signatures: [a]4 b2 B-4Z2
• This edition is known to exist in at least three states: in state 1, leaf Kk1 is missigned k1 and page 269 has press figure 1 at foot; in state 2, leaf Kk1 is missigned k1 and page 269 lacks press figure 1 at foot; in state 3, leaf Kk1 is signed correctly and page 269 has press figure 1 at foot
• Page numbers 155-156 are repeated
• The first unnumbered plate (frontispiece) is an etched portrait of the author signed "Isaac Whood pinxit ... G. Vertue sculp 1746.". The numbered plates are signed: "L.P. Boitard sculp."
• Engraved tail-pieces
• Includes list of subscribers (pages vii-xii)
• "Directions for the binder" and "Errata"--Unnumbered page 1 at end

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Dimensions

42 cm. (fol.)

Extent

xii, 361, that is, 363 pages, 1 unnumbered page, XLI leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates

Lccn

10002273

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Note

• Clark Library copy: xii, 361 (i.e. 363), [1] p.; 41 x 27 cm.; bound in old sprinkled calf, rebacked; armorial book-plate of Ingestre Hall.
• Spec. Coll. copy: Mottled calf. Spine tooled in gilt. Bookplate on front pastedown Jas. Stewart, Esqr., Killymoon.

Other physical details

illustrations, portrait

Record ID

3095827

System control number

• (OCoLC)03005754
• ucoclc3005754