Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer (1814)
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, John Rylands Library · London · leaf 64
Paupenim.-] THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. XXIX To these, I subjoin a fac-simile of the centre compartment in thelast leaf but one. It will remind the connoisseur in ancient typograj)hyof several similar cuts; which appear to have regularly descended aslow as nearly the middle of the 16th century.… … It remains to add, that the ])resent is a fair and sound copy ; having-the singular good fortune of being uncoloured. It is bound in ancientred morocco; and is one of the books recently purchased by his Loid-»hip, from Sir Arthur Paget, from Vieinia. XXX WORKS EXECUTED IN [Quindecim Signa. 5.*…
