Identifier: aedesalthorpiana02spen (find matches)
Title: Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Rare books Incunabula
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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pear in this elegant edi-tion—which he may compare with the clumsy dehneations of the samepieces by Caxton (as seen in the Tijpog. Antiq.Yol. i. p. 39, &c.) and withsimilar representations from a MS. given in vol. iv. p. 542, &c. of theBill. Spencer. It may be only just further obserAed, that the Bishop is thesame figure which appears in ^Sliscominis impression of the Itahan version G MISCELLANEOUS. of Virgils Bucolics, &c. 1494, (see vol. iv. p. 91), and which is selectedin the Bibliographical Decameron (vol. ii. p. 299) as an early exemplifi-cation of an ornamented title pag;e. Reverting to the elegant littlevolume before us, I shall conmience the description of it by giving thetitle of the work, and the ornament beneath—premising only, that thesame ornament may be seen at the conclusion of it—and that, when andwhere seen, it cannot fail to gratify the reader of taste. •I LIBRO DI GIVOCHO DI SCACCHI intitolato de costumi deglhiiomiiii & deglioffitii de nobili
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