A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, lately forming part of the library of the Duke di Cassano Serra, and now the property of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. : with a general index of authors and editions contained in the present volume and in the Bibliotheca Spenceriana and Ædes Althorpianæ / by the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S.S.A. librarian to his Lordship.

Accession number

PML 145689

Creator

Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.

Published

London: : Printed for the author by William Nicol, Shakespeare Press, and sold by Payne and Foss, and R.H. Evans, Pall-Mall., 1823.

Credit line

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes

Half t.p. reads: Bibliotheca Spenceriana, containing part of the Cassano library, books added, and a general index.
"Printed by William Nicol, Shakespeare Press, Cleveland Row, St. James, London."--Colophon.
"Index of authors and of editions."--p. [209]-295.
The entire Spencer collection (about 40,000 volumes) was purchased by Mrs. Rylands in 1892 and now forms part of the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Description

x, 295 ; 27 cm

Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Binding

Dark maroon morocco tooled in gilt, by C. Smith; bound as a set with related publications by Dibdin concerning the library of George John Earl Spencer (PML 145685-91).

Classification

Book

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Department

Printed Books