Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The date of 1462 is assigned to this volume, from its similarity, inregard to subject and execution, to the one last described. Heineckenthought the work might have been executed in 1461 ; and althoughhe was ignorant of the preceding production of Pfisters press, hehas correctly attributed the present one to the same artist. It beginson the recto of the leaf, quite at the top, without prefix or title-page,with the word * ysaias &c.; and the first cut is that of the Annun-ciation.* Considering i
Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ..library of George John, earl Spencer . The date of 1462 is assigned to this volume, from its similarity, inregard to subject and execution, to the one last described. Heineckenthought the work might have been executed in 1461 ; and althoughhe was ignorant of the preceding production of Pfisters press, hehas correctly attributed the present one to the same artist. It beginson the recto of the leaf, quite at the top, without prefix or title-page,with the word * ysaias &c.; and the first cut is that of the Annun-ciation.* Considering its antiquity, it is not an inelegant production ; • The cuts are ananged in the ensuing form, having text above, between, and No Date.] BIBLIA PAUPERUM. 103 being somewhat superior, as the reader may perceive, to many of thoseworks before described, as executed in the Infancy of a work was likely soon to become scarce, both from the popu-larity of the subject, and the superiority of its execution to precedingimpressions. The present copy is in as fine condition as a volume ofthis nature is usually found to be ; and is very elegantly bound in bluemorocco. 41. BiBLiA Pauperum Latine. Printed byPfister. Without Date or Place. Folio. We have here another production of the press of Albert Pf:ster. Itis either a translation from the German, or the German is a translationof the present; although, as Pfister has subjoined such early dates asthose of 1461 and 1462, to his German publications, it is not impro-bable that the present volume was posterior to the preceding one. It commences precisely like the preceding impression, both as totext and cuts, except that the text is here in the Latin language. N
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