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■2 76S SPENf I (Joseph) Polymetis: Or. An Enquiry concerning the Agreement Between the Works ol the Roman Poets, And the Remains of the Antient Artists. Being An Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In Ten Books. London: for R. Dodslev. 1747. Polio, First Edition, xii, 362 pp., with engravings in text; and portrait and 41 plates, contemporary polished calf, gilt hack, neatly repaired, a pleasing and fresh copy of one of the most handsome folios of this period to be produced in England. £15 |5S I SPENCE (Joseph) Polymetis : or an t-nqum^xmeerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the remains of Ancient Artists, being an attempt to illustrated them mutually from one another. Portrait and 31 Plates, some folding, and 16 tailpieces, engraved by F. Boitard, folio, calf. Third Edition. £6 1 Os London, 1774 Herbert ^rtbuv (£bims, 76 Spence, Joseph. Polymetis: or an Enquiry concerning the Agreement be¬ tween the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Ancient Artists. 188 leaves of text, list of subscribers, index, engravings in the text and 41 plates, some- folding. by Louis Philippe Boitard, portrait frontispiece by Vertue after Isaac Wood. Folio. Cont. calf, rebacked. London 1747. FIRST EDITION. Jefferson Library 4230. Ex-Library copy in very good condition. $85.00 The First Edition of the much read treatise on ancient mythology and art includes on p. '291 the satirical vignette of the Provost of Eton and his pupils, suppressed from later editions. 225 SPENCE (J.l. Polymetis : or, an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works ol the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the antient Artists. Being an Attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In Ten Books. The Second Edition, corrected by the Author. Folio, with engraved portrait of Spence by Vertue after the painting by Isaack Whood, 41 plates and 17 smaller illustrations; contemporary calf, repaired. 1755 £15 $42.00 Joseph Spence, anecdotist and friend of Pope, was held in considerable esteem by the leading literary men of his time and his Polymetis "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". Diet. Nat. Biog. I jm fatmm POLYMETIS O R, An Enquiry concerning the AGREEMENT Between the WORKS of the ROMAN POETS, And the REMAINS of the ANTIENT ARTISTS. BEING An Attempt to illuftrate them mutually from one another. IN TEN BOOKS. By the RevJ. Mr. Spence. The Second Edition, corredted by the Author. Omnes artes, quas ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum; & quafi cognatione quadam inter fe continentur. Cicero ; pro Arch. The Verfe and Sculpture bore an equal part; And Art reflected images to Art. fope ; of Poetry and Statuary. -Each from each contradi new ftrength and light. Id. of Poetry and Painting. LONDON: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. M.DCC.LV. * wiM/ <V'\&Y li

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