Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: 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 (Band 2) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-2]

Without Date.1

FLORUS.

35

This edition is indifferently exeeuted; but the page is well set up,
and the xnargin is ample. There ate neither signatures, catchwords,
nor numerals; but the sniall letter is uniformly inserted in the centre
of the space to be filled by the illuminated large capital initial. The
cliapters are designated in lower-case JEtoman type. Bound in russia.

242. Flortjs. Printed hy Sigismund Rot d’hitz.

Without Pate. Quarto.

On the reverse of a i, is the prefatory address of P. B[e]roaldus to
Count P. Maria Rubeus of Parma. The history commences on the
opposite page, upon the recto of a ii. The signatures run in eights;
and the work concludes on the recto of g viij, at bottom, thus :

me mgruj J>igigmu&u rot fc’fcit$ Sjmpf&oret £enig

This is a pretty copy of a neatly executed volume. The types have
a more exact resemblance to those of Guldinbeck, than to those of
Planck. The capital letters are precisely Guldinbeck’s. A copy is
in Cat. de la Valliere, vol. iii. n°. 4870; and in Laire’s Index Libror.
vol. ii. p. 7- A full page contains 29 lines. In blue morocco.

243. Florus. Without Pate, Place, or JVame of
Printer. Folio.

This impression, printed in the Roman letter, and appended to an
edition of Justin, commences on the recto of signature h iii of the
same ; and terminates on the reverse of 1 v—in sixes. The opposite
and last leaf contains the Register. The colophon will be given in
the account of Justin : post.