The pantheon, or, Ancient history of the gods of Greece and Rome : intended to facilitate the understanding of the classical authors, and of the poets in general ; for the use of schools, and young persons of both sexes / by Edward Baldwin, esq. ; with engravings of the principal gods, chiefly taken from the remains of ancient statuary.

Accession number: 
PML 84025
Author: 
Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Published: 
London : Printed for Thomas Hodgkins ..., 1806.
Description: 
xxvii, [1], 360, 12 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 18 cm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1980.
Notes: 

Based on Andrew Tooke's translation of François Antoine Pomey's book of mythology.
Baldwin is a pseudonym for William Godwin.
Verso of t.p.: Printed by B. M'Millan ...
Catalogue of books published by M.J. Godwin, 12 p. at end. Printed by Richard Taylor & Co, issued in 1812 or 1813. It contains reviews dated 1812, and by 1814 Taylor's company had changed its name.
Essick says none of these plates may be ascribed to William Blake.

Binding: 
Sheep, rebacked.
Provenance: 
Inscription: Ladies Cornwallis, Harriet Sinderby, 1824; bookplate of H. Buxton Forman.
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