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 528
) merits a slight mention in thisplace. The monarch, with a long beard, is seated in his chair of state: liis right handliolding a sceptre, his left resting on a ball. Two angels, above, are about to put a crownupon his head. To the right of him sits a small figure, holding a sceptre in his right… … We shall endeavour to afFord a suitable contrast to his Majesty,* bya fac-simile of the only portrait of a Queen, throughout the volume.It occuis on the reverse of m vii/, and we learn, fiom the precedingtext, that it is intended to be a portrait of Queen Mauy. * On tlie recto of g vij we observe a…