Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 156

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SPENCE, JOSEPH. 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. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Spence and 41 plates (variously foxed and offset, and offsetting onto facing pages); divisional tailpieces, including depiction of the Provost of Eton as an ass on page 291. xii, 361, [1] pages. Folio, modern leather. 2 extraneous contemporary engraved plates of classical statuary bound facing pages 66 and 92. first edition. London: R. Dodsley, 1747