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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 468

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ked man,stretched out and tied down upon a board of iron spikes : guards aresurrounding him. The 6th cut is too curious to be withheld from beingits own interpreter. It is thus explained in the prefix to the book towhich it belongs : Here Bochas sittinge in his studye alone: writeth agreate… … VOL. IV. 422 BOOKS PRINTED BY [Bochas; 1494. The 7th cut describes a battle, with few figures, in which the bowand sword are the chief implements of destruction. The 8th cut shewsus, in the foreground, a figure, with a tiara on its head, kneeling andhand-cuffed: a warrior is stepping on his back,…

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