A guide to classical learning, or, Polymetis abridged ...
Subtitle: being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right understanding of the classics, but also for forming in young minds a true taste for the beauties of poetry, sculpture, and painting
By: by N. Tindal ...
Contributors: Tindal, N. (Nicholas), 1687-1774; Dodsley, James, 1724-1797
Edition: The fourth edition, illustrated with twenty-eight prints from original antiques, and more particulary adapted to the use of schools and academies.
Publisher: Printed for J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall
Published: 1777
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Ancient Art; Early works to 1800; Classical antiquities; Classical Mythology
Other titles: Guide to classical learning; Polymetis abridged
Work titles: Polymetis
Notes: Signatures: A⁶ B-M¹².

Errata: p. [10] (first series).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: ( from title-page) Containing, I. By way of introduction the characters of the Latin poets and their works. The rise, growth, and fall of the polite arts among the Romans. The usefulness of antiques towards explaining the classics. A true idea of the allegories of the antients, and of their whole scheme of machinery, or interposition of the gods, with remarks on the defects of our best allegorists and artists for want of such an idea; title: II. An inquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman poets and the remains of the antient artists, in order to illustrate them mutually from one another.