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 Aedes Althorpianae. By the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, F.R.S. S.A. Librarian to his Lordship.
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
Category
Books
Date
1823
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069721
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], x, 295, [1] p. ; 28 cm. (4to.) Running number: 7805. Shelved and uniform with Dibdin's 'Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or A descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer' (4 vols.; London, 1814-1815). Binding: nineteenth-century half-bound gold-tooled green goatskin with marbled paper (silverfish damage) over boards; gilt titles on spine; head of textblock gilt, other sides plain.
Makers and roles
Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847), author George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), owner