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 . manufacture, and the printing and ink equally as is the volume, it is yet of very essential importance in com-pleting the series of a perfect set of the earlier impressions of the sacredtext. This copy has been cleaned, and very handsomely bound in darkgreen morocco by C. Lewis. MISCELLANEOUS. 41 1043. BiBLiA Latina. Without Name of Printer,Place^ or Date. 2 Vols. Folio. This impress
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 . manufacture, and the printing and ink equally as is the volume, it is yet of very essential importance in com-pleting the series of a perfect set of the earlier impressions of the sacredtext. This copy has been cleaned, and very handsomely bound in darkgreen morocco by C. Lewis. MISCELLANEOUS. 41 1043. BiBLiA Latina. Without Name of Printer,Place^ or Date. 2 Vols. Folio. This impression is printed in rather a coarse gothic type, and notimprobably by Quentel at Cologne. It is between the character of Zeland Ter Hoernen, and therefore much inferior to that of Conrad Hom-borch. Nor should I apprehend its antiquity to be lower than the year1478. It is printed in double columns, with running titles in coarsecapitals, with 42 lines in a full page The first volume terminates with The second volume begins with Thobias, and concludes on the rectoof the last leaf with the following colophon and armorial device : €^plicit litifr apocalipfi^ htatigiofjannijSf apOjSftoU ?. There are neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords. The presentis a very sound and desirable copy, with many rough leaves, obtainedfrom Mr. Sams of Darlington ; a very zealous bibliopolist in the acqui-sition of specimens of ancient printing. It is handsomely bound in calf,with gilt edges to the leaves. Lord Strangford, our ambassador atStockholm, who devotes some of his leisure hours to the pleasingpursuits of bibliography 5 and who gives abundant promise, in the cor-respondence with which he has been pleased to honour me, of success 42 MISCELLANEOUS. and excellence in this pursuit; has favoured me with a very particulardescription of this impression : but perhaps more minute than its in-trinsic importance, or relative rarity, renders necessary. His Lordshipmakes the first volume, concluding w
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