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 . ely this copy wants the second volume; the beauty of theprinting, and the general splendor of the impression, rendering thisdefect the more to be regretted. As a specimen of early ornamentalprinting at Lyons, which may vie with some of the more magnificentproductions at Paris, of the same period, the reader may be gratifiedwith the fac-simile on the following page, taken from the recto of thefirst leaf, a
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 . ely this copy wants the second volume; the beauty of theprinting, and the general splendor of the impression, rendering thisdefect the more to be regretted. As a specimen of early ornamentalprinting at Lyons, which may vie with some of the more magnificentproductions at Paris, of the same period, the reader may be gratifiedwith the fac-simile on the following page, taken from the recto of thefirst leaf, and being the first initial letter of the title : Le premier volumede la grat bible en fracois historiee et corrigee nouuellemet auec lepsaultier. The first nine leaves are occupied by the title, a prologue,and a table : of these, the table occupies eight: then a repertoire, orregister of signatures, on one page. As the leaves are regularly num-bered, the signatures become of subordinate consideration There are,in the whole, CClvi. leaves. As a specimen of the manner of repre-senting three several actions, or subjects, in the same composition, takewhat here follows—from fueillet 50 MISCELLANEOUS.
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