CONDENSED CLASSICS [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis abridged … being a Work absolutely necessary, not only for the right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in young Minds a true Taste of the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting. The fourth Edition. Illustrated with twenty-eight Prints from original Antiques, and more particularly adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies …

Second illustrated edition (fourth overall) of Nicholas Tindal’s abridgement for schools of Polymetis (1747), a dialogue by the traveller, scholar, friend of Alexander Pope, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford Joseph Spence (1699–1748), in which he explored the connections between Roman poetry and art and took aim at the pedantry of modern classical scholarship.