The new pantheon; or, an introduction to the mythology of the ancients in question and answer: compiled for the use of young persons...
London.
Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1838.
New edition.
12mo.
viii, 260pp. With an engraved folding frontispiece and a further 16 plates. Original publisher's black cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rubbed, loss to head of spine. Hinges exposed, publisher's advertisements to pastedowns, minute marginal worm-track to one plate.
An enlarged edition of Presbyterian minister William Jillard Hort's (bap. 1767, d. 1849) popular primer on Greek and Roman mythology, to which has been added 'the Oriental and Northern Mythology', including the pantheons of Ancient Egypt, Persia, India, Scandinavia, and Mexico.
£ 75.00
Antiquates Ref: 31334
