Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, in the library of George John, Earl Spencer / By Thomas Frognall Dibdin.

  • George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer
Date:
1822
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Credit: Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, in the library of George John, Earl Spencer / By Thomas Frognall Dibdin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Suetonius of Sweynheym and Pannartz. The present is a fine large copy, bound in green morocco. 1008. Abano, Petrus de. DeVenenis. Printed by /. P. de Lignamine. 1475. Quarto. A table occupies the first two leaves, and a portion of the following page. There are neither numerals, signatures, nor catchwords. On the reverse of the 50th leaf is the colophon, thus : Finiunt Petri de Abano reme/ dia uenenorum . Rome in domo Nobilis uiri Iohan nis Philipi de Lignamine Messan . SDN familiaris . hie tractatus im- pressns est. Anno domini . M CCCC LXXV . DIE XXVII. Mensis Iannarii Pont . Syxti IIII . Anno eius quarto The register occupies the recto of the following and last leaf. This, like the greater number of the smaller specimens of De Lignamine’s press, is a wretchedly printed little hook. In olive morocco binding. 1009. [D]’Acciesole Givocho di Scacchi. Printed by Miscomini. 1493. Quarto. All the treatises upon Chess, whether moralised or otherwise, and especially those in the Spanish and Italian languages—which are printed in the xvth century, and adorned with cuts—are considered as rare and estimable. Yet I know not if any impression, of the same period, exhibit equal elegance with the present. Indeed, at first Anew, we recognise all the beauty of Florentine art, whether in the ornaments or in the printing; though with pain it must be admitted that the present copy is very defective both in size and condition. I hope to be able to gratify the reader by fac-similes of all the pieces as they appear in this elegant edi- tion—which he may compare with the clumsy delineations of the same pieces by Caxton (as seen in the Typog. Antiq.vol. i. p. 39, &c.) and with similar representations from a MS. given in vol. iv. p. 542, &c. of the Bibl. Spencer. It may be only just further observed, that the Bishop is the same figure which appears in Miscomini’s impression of the Italian version