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 65
Battering rams are then displayed, of various constructions, and withvarious powers. A series of Standards next arrests the attention; when,after an interval of a dozen pages, we observe a large marine tower,with a fish-tailed figure, at top, blowing a conch. A great number ofinstruments for… … This is the last embellishment in the volume. There is text on thereverse of it; and 44 ensuing leaves terminate the impression. Onthe recto of the last of these 44 leaves, beneath the verses as extractedbelow,* we read the colophon, thus : * Valturri nostras priiiceps cultissiine linguaCulque…
