. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. of illustrationhas engaged his Lordships attention for the last fifteen years ; andalthough such a pursuit may be considered as endless, yet it is nowterminated in a manner to satisfy even the most fastidious and mostunremitting of Print-Collectors. The united diligence and judgmentof Messrs. Woodburn and , have chiefly contributed to such aCollection; which has necessarily been attended with an
. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. of illustrationhas engaged his Lordships attention for the last fifteen years ; andalthough such a pursuit may be considered as endless, yet it is nowterminated in a manner to satisfy even the most fastidious and mostunremitting of Print-Collectors. The united diligence and judgmentof Messrs. Woodburn and , have chiefly contributed to such aCollection; which has necessarily been attended with an expense pro-portionate to the number and value of the engravings; which amountto at least three thousand two hundred. These volumes have been recently bound, in the most splendid andappropriate manner, by C. Lewis, in dark green morocco. Thus has the reader been conducted round the Library at circuit, or rather bibliographical journey, has been necessarilyrapid ; yet enough has been seen to convince him of what a more lei-surely survey would produce. The preceding may indeed be calledlittle better than an Epitome of the contents of this extensive and mag-nificent Collection,. [ 237 ] THE STAIR CASE. On passing through the door, immediately opposite the entranceinto the house, in the hall before described, (see page 1) thevisitor casts his eye, vnth no small gratification, on the scene—which is represented in the annexed Engraving. This is thestair case of which such handsome mention is made in the Travelsof Cosmo III., Grand Duke of Tuscany, at page xxxiv. ante ;and of which the fair Sacharissa, as has been before observed,was the architectress or planner. But this magnificent ascent tothe upper, or what was formerly used as state apartments, led toscarcely any thing but the rooms immediately connected with it;and in order to remedy so palpable an inconvenience, the presentproprietors of Althorp caused those galleries to be buUt,which are seen in the annexed view
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