A new system, or, An analysis of ancient mythology : wherein an attempt is made to divest tradition of fable, and to reduce the truth to its original purity ...
A New System, or an Analysis of Ancient Mythology is a 1774 London treatise by classical scholar Jacob Bryant, published for several London booksellers and engraved by James Basire, with plates that include work by William Blake. Its pictures are mostly fine line maps of the ancient Near East, with place names and hatched coastlines, plus one engraved vignette of a crescent boat under a rainbow framed by foliage; a designer might borrow the cartographic labelling style or the emblematic framed roundel.
