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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 451

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v.The 18th Book has XXV Chapters, ending on the reverse of X iiij.The 19th Book has XIII Chapters, and ends on the recto of A iiij (thethird alphabet of signatures.) The 20th Book contains XXII Chapters;of which the latter two are wanting in the copy under description. Itterminates on the reverse… … This last book contains a second wood-cut on the reverse of D iiij, andhas XIII Chapters; ending on the recto of E v. After an address tothe reader,* (as in the former impression,) to pray for the soul of thetranslatour, the colophon, on the same page, is precisely similar to thatby Caxtonf—as far…

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