Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . o o .8 < O ft* ,3 ^ ^ ^ ] THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. xxxiii The reader is next presented, in the opposite page, with an accuratefac-simile of the whole of the 38th cut, from which he will judgeof the character of the type and figures.* It must be allowed that thelatter are not divested of expression ; considering the very early periodof the art in which they were executed. The last five cuts, as was before observed, occupy the whole page,without any lineal section. The fourth of the
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . o o .8 < O ft* ,3 ^ ^ ^ ] THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. xxxiii The reader is next presented, in the opposite page, with an accuratefac-simile of the whole of the 38th cut, from which he will judgeof the character of the type and figures.* It must be allowed that thelatter are not divested of expression ; considering the very early periodof the art in which they were executed. The last five cuts, as was before observed, occupy the whole page,without any lineal section. The fourth of these, with a title at top,treferring to the Compendium theologie, is of a diflFerent cast fromthe preceding. A table, covered with a cloth, and seven dishes orplates, are in the centre ; behind which are three figures, a femalebetween two males. Before the cloth, and in the foreground of thepicture, is a couple, of which the ensuing is, in part, a fac-simile; thefigures extend below to about two Perhaps it may be as well to add a regular list of the cuts, asHeinecken has given the summaries of their contents. • The translation of the German title is as follows: • Antichrist falls down as if hewere dead, and sleeps by enchantment; so that all princes and lords, and a multitude ofpeople, see him dead, and begin to cr^ and lament for their Lord. t The translation of thb German title, or head-piece to the cut, is, in part, literally tlms:«Wlien Antichrist was slain, his ser\ant3 said they had neither God nor Lord, and thenlived in a sailul luaoner, and in the pleasuret of love,* £i«. VOL. I. f xxxiv WORKS EXECUTED IN [Antichrist. The first page is blank, and on the other side there is a discourse of32 lines, which begins : Impression. I. Here begins the History of Antichrist, taken from many books, how and by whom he shall be born, &c. Plate without divi-sion. The father Of Antichrist is here seated, and seeks hisdaughter in marriage. II. This, and the following cuts,
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