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 215
vesselin the frontispiece. The reader, among others, may compare the following with the tamerepresentation of it which appears at fol. XLI, recto, of Pynsons edition.It is only a part of the embellishment; the original having, opposite,swine and geese feeding in a trough. The folly exposed has this… … * In Pynsons edition, 1509, fol. a poetical tianslation by Barclay; and in W, de Wordes,1517,4to.; a prose abridgment by Watson; see note p. 204 ante. A second edition ofBarclays poetical version, with the same cuts, to which is added an edition of Barclays ownEclogues, was published in 1570,…
