. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. •?-*.-WJ--^^ &.:? !g bv Rembrandt, in the TofceXsion ;: iandfli. futlisliat fcr du !^ > THE LIBRARY. 21 as a Draicing Rooin; where the company assemble on risingfrom the dinner table. It is now scarcely twenty-five years since this. room con-tained the whole of his Lordships library; and that portion ofit which, in the engraving, is seen through the pillars, was setapart for the rece
. Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. •?-*.-WJ--^^ &.:? !g bv Rembrandt, in the TofceXsion ;: iandfli. futlisliat fcr du !^ > THE LIBRARY. 21 as a Draicing Rooin; where the company assemble on risingfrom the dinner table. It is now scarcely twenty-five years since this. room con-tained the whole of his Lordships library; and that portion ofit which, in the engraving, is seen through the pillars, was setapart for the reception of Editiones Prixcipes, and Booksprinted in the Fifteenth Century. Here it was that Gibbondescribed himself as having exhausted a whole moiTiing (incompany with the noble o\vner) among the first editions ofCicero. * Were that celebrated historian now alive, and en-gaged in a similar pursuit, he would find the toil of investigationa little more severe; as the niunber in that class of Books (pre-served for the last twenty years at Spencer House) is prodigi-ously mcreased. The shelves, as seen in the ^iew, and thenoccupied by early printed volumes, now contain a selection of
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