Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . ] THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. XXIX To these, I subjoin a fac-simile of the centre compartment in thelast leaf but one. It will remind the connoisseur in ancient typograj)hyof several similar cuts; which appear to have regularly descended aslow as nearly the middle of the 16th century. N^W^^^j;;;^. It remains to add, that the ])resent is a fair and sound copy ; having-the singular good fortune of being uncoloured. It is bound in ancientred morocco; and is one of the books recently purchas
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . ] THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. XXIX To these, I subjoin a fac-simile of the centre compartment in thelast leaf but one. It will remind the connoisseur in ancient typograj)hyof several similar cuts; which appear to have regularly descended aslow as nearly the middle of the 16th century. N^W^^^j;;;^. It remains to add, that the ])resent is a fair and sound copy ; having-the singular good fortune of being uncoloured. It is bound in ancientred morocco; and is one of the books recently purchased by his Loid-»hip, from Sir Arthur Paget, from Vieinia. XXX WORKS EXECUTED IN [Quindecim Signa. 5.* Quindecim Signa extremi judicii diemPRiECEDENTiA. Germanicc. Folio. This very curious work begins on the recto of the first leaf, thus : Wit tjni) in toelicgct ineiief tjitb form tite fttnf5cl)ctt5aic8cnhinicntJortieml^ingiSftcn tag toil icl[) SDurcl) kc* These are the fiist two lines of the first page; which contains 30lines, encircled by a border: the whole is very evidently the effect of?w orkmanshij) upon a wooden-block. Eight leaves follow, having tworude wood-cufs upon the rectos of each ; with the exception of the lasttwo leaves—which have only one upon each. At the top of each wood-cut there is a German inscription. The first represents two men by a riverside, poin
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