The New Pantheon, or an introduction to the mythology of the ancients, etc.

W. Jillard Hort

Published by Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London, 1854

About this Item

4 x 5.5ins. Rest of title - "in question and answer, compiled for the use of young persons. To which are added an accentuated index, questions for exercise, and poetical illustrations of Grecian mythology, from Homer and Virgil". New edition, with oriental and northern mythology. Contemporary brown cloth, worn; some foxing; rear hinge cracking, front hinge broken, flyleaf missing, marks on endpapers. 272 pages + 8 page catalogue The Rev G. R. Gleig's School Series. Folding frontispiece The Mythological Tree, 16 other Plates in Graeco-Roman section (one plate loose & spotted; another with foxing in margin).Part one Greek and Roman, including heroes, seven wonders of the world; part two - Oriental, Paganism, Buddhism, Babylonian or Chaldean, Indian, Egyptian, Persion, Scythian, Celtic, Scandinavian, Arabian, middle eastern, Mexican, Peruvian.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Pantheon, or an introduction to the mythology of the ancients, etc.
• Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, London
• Publication Date: 1854
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: New Edition
• Condition: Fairly Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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