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.
Joseph Spence (1699-1768)
Category
Agricultural and horticultural equipment
Date
1747
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3210773
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,361,[1]p., plates : ill., port. ; fol. Scrap paper page marker inserted at plate XXVIII: with fragment of eighteenth-century ms. Numbered on rear endpaper in pencil (twentieth or twenty-first century): 101284. Provenance: not indigenous. Macclesfield library, Shirland Castle with bookplate 'North Library. Press mark 114.H.3 … 1860’. Macclesfield armorial blind stamp through preliminary leaves. Purchased by NT, 2009. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gilt fillet and double blind roll border; sewn onto five raised double bands; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered spine label: Spence's Polymetis.
Makers and roles
Joseph Spence (1699-1768), author