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 97
done. The reader will theiefore expect some gratifying accountof so extraordinary a volume. On the recto of the first leaf, above a large wood-cut portrait—■of part of which the ensuing is a fac-simUe, and which is probably 68 ANCIENT CLASSICS. [Strasbourg; 1498. intended for that of Horace—we read… … The reverse is blank. On the recto of the second leaf we have, at top,the Epigram of Locher to his readers. Beneath, there is an oblongwood-cut, entitled • fi^atfjetJta Muearum; in the centre of whichCalliope is seated, crowning Horace, who kneels before her. Theeight other Muses stand around.…
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