Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . thus : Opus impressnm* arte & diligetia ma gistri philippi ueneti . Anno domini Mcccclxxviii Inclyto ueneciarum* pricipe andrea Vendramino . A tender copy of an indifferently printed book. In russia binding. • Sic. MISCELLANEOUS. 115 ]100. Dante. Col Co3imento di hy Petro Cremonense dito Veronese, at1491. Folio. Veni ice. Nineteen pages of prefatory matter occupy signature a. The poem,with
Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . thus : Opus impressnm* arte & diligetia ma gistri philippi ueneti . Anno domini Mcccclxxviii Inclyto ueneciarum* pricipe andrea Vendramino . A tender copy of an indifferently printed book. In russia binding. • Sic. MISCELLANEOUS. 115 ]100. Dante. Col Co3imento di hy Petro Cremonense dito Veronese, at1491. Folio. Veni ice. Nineteen pages of prefatory matter occupy signature a. The poem,with the surrounding commentary, commences on sign. B, with thenumeral ii, for that of the leaf. This edition contains extremely neatwood cuts throughout—in the Inferno, Purqaforio, and Paradiso;namely, one at the beginning of each Canto. I apprehend these cuts tobe the performance of a Florentine, and not of a Venetian, artist. Theyare so pleasing that the following specimens may not be consideredunacceptable : especially as, of late, the pencil of Mr. Flaxman has beenexercised in outline delineations of the same subjects. The followingaccompanies the first Canto of the This may be contrasted with the last ^\ ood-cut of the last Canto inthe same poem of the Inferno. It will remind the curious of the printof the same character from the Monte Sancto di Dio of 1477, as pub-lished in the Cat. de la Valliere—and of a yet older one, of largerdimensions, alluded to in the Bihl. Spencer, vol. iv. p. 116 MISCELLxVNEOUS.
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