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 402
r figure, prostrate, having the shoulders and liead severed—as if by the terminat-ing line of the frame work. The three trees in the back ground are executed in thehorizontal manner. On 1 vj, recto, is the murder of the Innocents, before Herod, who isseated on his throne. One man, to the left, has… … It only remains to add that this copy is bound in dark red morocco,by C. Lewis, in the mothers arms : another, to the right, kneeling, exliibits a child run through upon thepoint of his spear. Three children (apparently expecting a similar fate) are ui the foreground.On 1 viij, reverse, is the…
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