[Rarebooks] fa: ROSS'S MYSTAGOGUS POETICUS or MUSES INTERPRETER (re: Mythology) - 1648

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Alexander Ross: Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter:  
Explaning the historicall Mysteries, and mysticall Histories of the  
ancient Greek and Latine Poets. Here Apollo’s Temple is again opened,  
the Muses Treasurers the second time discovered,  and the Gardens of  
Parnassus disclosed more fully, whence many flowers of usefull,  
delightfull, and rare Observations, never touched by any other  
Mythologist, are collected. The second Edition much inlarged. London:  
Printed by T[homas]. W[arren]. for Thomas Whitaker at the Kings Arms  
in Pauls Church-yard, 1648. Small 8vo (16 cm) in period calf,  
sympathetically rebacked in leather with gilt rules and morocco spine  
label; [12] + 2 + 418 + [34] pp. Wing R1965; ESTC R203395...
An encyclopedic survey of Greek and Roman mythology and literature by  
Alexander Ross (1590-1654), Scottish writer, Royalist,  
controversialist and chaplain to Charles I. Ross, as the  
"Interpreter", appends a lengthy analysis to each entry, discussing  
the subject's history and citations from literature, and often adding  
a Christian moral for good measure.