Historiae poeticae scriptores antiqui
By: Apollodorus Atheniensis, Ptolemaeus Hephaest. F., Conon Grammaticus, Parthenius Nicaensis, Antoninus Liberalis ; Graecè & Latinè ; accessêre breves notae & indices necessarij
Publisher: Typis F. Muguet; Prostant apud R. Scott, bibliopolam Londinensem
Published: 1675
Place of publication: Parisiis
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Classical Mythology; Early works to 1800
Notes: "Epistola dedicatoria" signed: Tho. Gale.

Signatures: pi1 a-c⁸ d⁴ A-3O⁴ [par]⁸ ²A-K⁸ ³A-D⁸ (leaves ²K8 and ³D8 blank).

Woodcut title vignette.

"Dissertatio de scriptoribus mythologicis": p. 5-56 (1st count)

Wing (2nd ed.) G155

ESTC R27379

Bequest; Mary Hyde Eccles; February 2004; 2003J-JB163.

Greek and Latin in parallel columns.

Ownership inscription (Ed[inburgh] 1731) and bookstamp of Alexander Boswell; from the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

In this state, the title vignette depicts two winged putti and a basket of flowers.

In this copy, the gathering of tables signed with a paragraph mark is bound between gatherings 2G and 2H.

Bound in contemporary full vellum.