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 . ic type, in exact register, with a full page, in doublecolumns There are wood-cuts in abundance; many of them repeated,and most of them in the style of art with which Verard usually adornedhis larger volumes. The present copy, although somewhat too short, isin fine preservation, and the binding (in russia leather, by C. Lewis)_isexceedingly elegant. 1J83. MicHAULT. Le Doctrinal dv Temps Pre-sent. TVitliou
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 . ic type, in exact register, with a full page, in doublecolumns There are wood-cuts in abundance; many of them repeated,and most of them in the style of art with which Verard usually adornedhis larger volumes. The present copy, although somewhat too short, isin fine preservation, and the binding (in russia leather, by C. Lewis)_isexceedingly elegant. 1J83. MicHAULT. Le Doctrinal dv Temps Pre-sent. TVitlioutNa7ne of Printer, or Date. Folio. This book is equally curious and uncommon. It is dedicated to theDuke of Burgundy, the husband of our Caxtons patroness, and thetypes bear a very strong resemblance to that fount of character withwhich the first English printer executed the Diets and Sayinges, theVirgil, Boetius, and Mirror of the World, &c. It is almost entirely apoetical composition, adorned with a few rude wood-cuts (sometimesrepeated) representing chiefly a preacher in his pulpit. I shall submit(from cvij, rev. e ii, rev.) two different specimens of the more animatedpreacher:.
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