Guide classical learning polymetis abridged von tindal (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Hardback, full-calf, gilt title to spine label. 17.5cm x 11cm. xxxiv, 224pp, [6]. Complete with 13 plates, containing 28 prints from original antiques, and more particularly adapted to the use of schools and academies. 5th edition 1786. Rear board detached, front board loose. Private ownership. (ar15).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Not relevant. London, Printed for J Dodsley and R Horsefield, 1764, first edition; 24mo, 108 x 167mm; pp [viii], iv, 340; full calf, rebacked in matching material with raised bands, gilt decorated and with a red leather title label gilt; corners worn and with a vertical iondication of an internal crack to the spine; book block slightly browned in places but generally clean; cracked with in consequence a signature (beginning H2) partially loose but the contents otherwise firm. . . . . . The compiler, Tindal, was a cleric and a writer, including translating Paul de Rapin's "History of England" in 13 volumes and writing a three-volume continuation of the work from the reigns of James II/VII to George II.…

leather bound hardcover. 166p, plus index. front cover detached.

12mo., First Edition, neat nineteenth century signature on front free endpaper; full contemporary speckled calf, sides with double frame border in gilt, expertly rebacked in calf to style, back with raised bands, second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy. Although now best known for his translations of Continental histories (most notably Rapin's 'History of England' ), Nicolas Tindal is remembered also for this wide-ranging classical text-book, and for his continuing support of Greenwich Hospital which houses his portrait by Knapton. EXTREMELY SCARCE.…

Zustand: Very Good. copperplates [12 including one folding of star constellations by P.Fourdrinier] with from one to six images] these probably used previously in Spence's Polymetis as page numbering is entirely incorrect. 12mo marbled tan leather on 5 raised bands with extra gilt floral decoration and red title label to spine.Gilt dentelles. Spine slightly worn, coverpage slightly loose[tiny bit bleached to one corner]. Plate 1 as frontis +Title-page in red and black +[6p-Introduction] +279pp +[6p=index] +1 leaf over publisher's booklist. 1 Pullout illustration on p173. Except for endpapers's browning/foxing to edges a lovely clean copy in a charming binding in overall very nice condition. *Deals with the Ancient Greek and Roman deities, heroes, poets, and other classical figures and the statuary and artwork produced. This book is an abridgment by Tindal of Joseph Spence's 'Polymetis', Printed on Ludgate Srt. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

12mo, pp.[12], xxxiv, 224, [6(index)], with an engraved frontispiece and 12 plates, the last folding and signed 'P.Fourdrinier'; very slight marginal blue stain to frontispiece, last quire shaken; else a handsome copy in contemporary speckled calf, red morocco lettering-piece; hinges cracked; printed booklabel of Edwin Sandys to front pastedown, dated 1778 (see below), over another Sandys family inscription.Second illustrated edition (fourth overall) of Nicholas Tindal's abridgement for schools of Polymetis (1747), a dialogue by the traveller, scholar, friend of Alexander Pope, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford Joseph Spence (16991748), in which he explored the connections between Roman poetry and art and took aim at the pedantry of modern classical scholarship. 'Conceived during Spence's first visit to Italy and with much of its material collected there, Polymetis was attacked in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Laokoon (1766) and, though new editions appeared in 1755 and 1774, and abridged versions for the use of schools were current until the 1820s, it sank fairly quickly from serious notice. However, it proved an invaluable guide to mythological images for Keats' (ODNB). Tindal's Polymetis abridged turned Spence's work into a broad guide to the classics and was first published in 1764, and then with illustrations and specifically adapted for schools in 1768. It condensed Spence's work by 'omitting the quotations' and presenting the 'real intent of the allegories and machinery' of classical mythology 'and therefore it is undoubtedly preferable to any school-book of the kind hitherto published'. Provenance: Edwin Blundell Sandys (17651785), the youngest son of Col.Martin Sandys (17291768), of Ombersley Court, Worcestershire. His sister Mary Sandys, later Marchioness of Downshire, was the only of three siblings to survive to maturity and would inherit the family estates from her uncle. ESTC N7457. Language: English. …