HORT, W. Jillard

 

HORT, W. Jillard, The New Pantheon; or an Introduction to the Mythology of the Ancients, in Question and Answer: Compiled for the Use of Young Persons. A New Edition Considerably Enlarged with the Addition of the Oriental and the Northern Mythology

 

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green & Longman, 1836

 

 

£ 120

 

12mo. 260 pp. Fold out frontispiece of ‘The Mythological Tree’, Title page, Preface. 16 full-page plates illustrating individual Gods and Heroes. Bookplate of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham on front pastedown. Contemporary black calf; worn corners and margins; spine in six compartments with gilt title; torn binding at foot of spine. A good copy.