The Roman history : from the building of the city to the perfect settlement of the Empire ...
A 1696 London history of ancient Rome by Laurence Echard, printed by T. Hodgkin for booksellers M. Gillyflower and R. Parker, covering the city's founding through the Empire's settlement and drawn from the John Adams Library. The engraved title page shows a seated, helmeted Roman figure above a crowd and classical architecture, with two muscular reclining figures supporting a tablet lettered THE ROMAN HISTORY, a dense, theatrical emblem a designer could borrow for heroic, authoritative lettering and figure arrangement.
