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 . gnificent book, printed (Uke thepresent copy) upon vellum, yet it is very probable that the reader maynot object to a repetition of parts of that description, and to a furtherillustration of the volume, by means of wood-cuts, in addition to whatalready appears in the Bibliographical Decameron, vol i. p, 83-6. At MISCELLANEOUS. 197 the time of the description here referred to, the Noble Owner of thiscopy w
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 . gnificent book, printed (Uke thepresent copy) upon vellum, yet it is very probable that the reader maynot object to a repetition of parts of that description, and to a furtherillustration of the volume, by means of wood-cuts, in addition to whatalready appears in the Bibliographical Decameron, vol i. p, 83-6. At MISCELLANEOUS. 197 the time of the description here referred to, the Noble Owner of thiscopy was without the impression in any form. He may now congratu-late himself, on possessing it, with a fine specimen of an early-Juntafolio upox VELLUM. The title-page, here unfortunately soiled, is richand imposing. At top, we observe a coeval ms. memorandum, denoting,as far as its partially defaced appearance will enable us to make out,that this very copy was originally upon the shelves of the library of , of the same monastic order. A figure of the founder of theVallombrosa order, of which the follo\ving is an interesting fac-simile,is the first printed object in the Then follows the title, in very large lower-case guthii. letters, witlithe subjoined de\ice—both in red : thus. 198 MISCELLANEOUS. asuetuDine orUtnis?Balli6ttmbrasse.
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