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 . The punishment for Danaes infidelity is represented in the follow-ing most singular wood-cut—preceded by a title : Comment le Acrisiusquant il veit sa fille Danes grosse il leuoya en exil et la mist en la vier atout vng petit vaisseau et la Jist viener en la haulte mer a lauanture defortune. MISCELLANEOUS. 249. On the recto of the leaf immediately following the conclusion of thefirst book, there is a very
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 . The punishment for Danaes infidelity is represented in the follow-ing most singular wood-cut—preceded by a title : Comment le Acrisiusquant il veit sa fille Danes grosse il leuoya en exil et la mist en la vier atout vng petit vaisseau et la Jist viener en la haulte mer a lauanture defortune. MISCELLANEOUS. 249. On the recto of the leaf immediately following the conclusion of thefirst book, there is a very large wood-cut, upwards of nine inches long,and seven wide, of the storming of Troye la grande. Hercules andTheseus seem to be laying about them, in all directions, in a mostfurious manner; while a troop of Laomedon Roy seems in reservein the back ground. The reverse is blank. The opening of the secondbook affords the following terrific representation of Commet Herculescombatit contre trois lyons en la forest de nemee si les tua et en print lespeaulx. Sign. A(i)—second set. Kk !50 MISCELLANEOUS.
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