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Specimens of antient sculpture, : Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: / selected from different collections in Great Britain, by the Society of Dilettanti

Book
1809-1835 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

2 v. : ill. ; fol.
With plates.
Vol. 2 published by Payne and Foss.
The author of the text of v. 1 is identified in the introduction to v. 2 as R.P. Payne, whose An inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology is reprinted as an appendix with its own t.p. in v. 2, with [4], 83, [1] p. which includes the index to v. 2.
Many of the 75 plates in v. 1 and the 58 in v. 2 were drawn and engraved by J. Agar.


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TitleSpecimens of antient sculpture, : Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman: / selected from different collections in Great Britain, by the Society of Dilettanti
Brief description
Book, 'Specimens of antient sculpture, : Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman, Vol. 2 / selected from different collections in Great Britain, by the Society of Dilettanti', London : printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for T. Payne, Pall Mall, and J. White & Co., Fleet Street. 1809-1835.
Physical description
2 v. : ill. ; fol.
With plates.
Vol. 2 published by Payne and Foss.
The author of the text of v. 1 is identified in the introduction to v. 2 as R.P. Payne, whose An inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology is reprinted as an appendix with its own t.p. in v. 2, with [4], 83, [1] p. which includes the index to v. 2.
Many of the 75 plates in v. 1 and the 58 in v. 2 were drawn and engraved by J. Agar.
Other number
100.F.2 - NAL Pressmark
Collection
Library number
38041800998122

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