Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . us Fabul^. Latino Carmine: cumFabulis Rimicii et Avieni, &c. Date, Place, or Printer s This is rather a splendid edition, and will be prized by the curiouson account of its containing one of the earliest impressions of the• Extravagantes, adorned with wood-cuts, which exhibit no veryscrupulous concealment of the subject of the fables to which theybelong. The fictions of jEsop and Avienus are printed in verse, witha type of larger dimension than the rest; which resemb
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . us Fabul^. Latino Carmine: cumFabulis Rimicii et Avieni, &c. Date, Place, or Printer s This is rather a splendid edition, and will be prized by the curiouson account of its containing one of the earliest impressions of the• Extravagantes, adorned with wood-cuts, which exhibit no veryscrupulous concealment of the subject of the fables to which theybelong. The fictions of jEsop and Avienus are printed in verse, witha type of larger dimension than the rest; which resembles somewhatthat of John Zeiner at Ulm. On the reverse of the first leaf, we havea whole length portrait of ^sop, similar to what the reader may seein the recent edition of our Typographical Antiquities, vol. i. p. 209:surrounded by flowers, birds, &c. and a fanciful border. The followingis a fac-simile of the head and shoulders of this portrait; which will befound somewhat more delicately executed than the one produced byCaxtons press. It is not, indeed, divested of expression. ssopys. A border, similar to the one above mentioned, surrounds the page onthe recto of the opposite leaf. The four books of the Fables of ^sopend on the reverse of sign, k ii. On the recto of sign, k iij, Fabule Rome; t474.] AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS. 247 Esopi anticjue extrauagates dicite sequutur; with the nmning title• Extrauagates: as far as sign, m i. Then the fables of Riniicius:next, those of Avienus : then Fabule Collecte from Poggio and others,extending from m to q viij: on the reverse of this latter, at bottom,the volume closes with #jni^ tihieri^atuni fafiularuni* This impression is of rather uncommon occurrence. The present was a•Museum Duplicate copy; and is elegantly bound in red morocco. 112. Ammianus Marcellinus. Printed hySachsel and Golsch. Rome. 1474. Folio. Editio Princeps. This impression is distinguished rather for itsextreme rarity than intrinsic value. It contains only thirteen
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