Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . « CO o so tL^ S ^ r o * f^ s -I ? s ^ S 3 5 J! C 2 Ars Morimdi.} THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. xv these are well executed. To the right, St. John appearsto be asleep in a sepulchre, which has more the air ofa truckle-bed. It is obvious, from the foregoing list, that some of the cuts in thepresent copy are inserted without attention to numerical order ; asthe denunciations of the 6th angel come after those of the seventh. Insome respects this copy would seem to correspond with Heineckensaccount of th
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . « CO o so tL^ S ^ r o * f^ s -I ? s ^ S 3 5 J! C 2 Ars Morimdi.} THE INFANCY OF PRINTING. xv these are well executed. To the right, St. John appearsto be asleep in a sepulchre, which has more the air ofa truckle-bed. It is obvious, from the foregoing list, that some of the cuts in thepresent copy are inserted without attention to numerical order ; asthe denunciations of the 6th angel come after those of the seventh. Insome respects this copy would seem to correspond with Heineckensaccount of the first edition, and in other respects with that of thesecond. The description of St. Johns embarcation in the vessel, in the4th plate of the third edition, differs from the impression of it in thepresent one; so that it is extremely perplexing to ascertain its correctorder in the list of editions. It is worth remarking that, according tothe late Mr. Crevenna, this copy (which was originally in his own col-lection) was seen by Heinecken, and was pronounced by him to be com-plete ; but to be the
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