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 . D d 202 Cum gratia $ priuilcgio MISCELLANEOUS. 203 The device in red (as at page 198) is below, A table of the move-able feasts is on the reverse. Six leaves of the calendar follow. Thenone leaf of the solar and lunar annual circles. Signature b follows, ofwhich the first leaf is not marked : this signature has 12 leaves : on thereverse of the 12th of which is a magnificent page, entirely


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 . D d 202 Cum gratia $ priuilcgio MISCELLANEOUS. 203 The device in red (as at page 198) is below, A table of the move-able feasts is on the reverse. Six leaves of the calendar follow. Thenone leaf of the solar and lunar annual circles. Signature b follows, ofwhich the first leaf is not marked : this signature has 12 leaves : on thereverse of the 12th of which is a magnificent page, entirely devoted towood-cut ornaments—with a repetition of the two preceding cuts inthe middle. The last supper is represented below. The text of theMissal commences on the ensuing page—foho i: which gives us thefollowing graceful piece of composition, in a lateral arabesque ornament.


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