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]

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MARTIAL.

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deliter degetes: eosde ipssores ad lioc duxerut Anno salut! M.
cccc.lxxiiii. M. Lucidi phosphori Epigramma.

(Then follovvs the Epigram.)

The present is a beautiful copy in red morocco binding.

313. Maktialis. Printed hy I. de Colonia. Penice.
1475. Folio.

There is no necessity to give a copious description of tlie present im-
pression; since it is, in all probability, a xnere reprint of the first
Venetian impi’ession, by Vindelin de Spira. On the reverse of the
first leaf (sign. a i,) we read the epistle of Pliny to Cornelius Priscus,
as before. On the l’ecto of the eixsuing leaf, a 2, we have this pi'efix
to the first epigram in the * Liber Spectaculorum

M. Yalerii Martialis Epigramatum opus
In Amphitheatrum Caesaris.

The text seems to be a mere transcript of the preceding impression,
and the press work is nearly in the same form. The signatures, from
a to r, run in tens. On the recto of r viij, the text concludes as
before, and the same epistle of Alexandrinus begins: on the reverse
of r. ix, we l’ead the imprint, thus :

Impressum Yenetiis Impensis loannis de Colo/
nia: sociiq; eius Ioannis manthen de Gherretze^.

. M.cccc.lxxv.

The reader may see a few catalogue-references in the Inirod. to-the
Clcissics, vol. ii. p. 81. The present is an extremely beautiful, and lai’ge
margined, copy. It is in old red morocco (Harleian) binding.

314. Martialis. TVithout Dctte, Place, or Name
of Printer. Quarto.

This impi'ession is evidently the same as that which Maittaire
(Annal. Typog. vol. i. p. 767,) briefly describes as printed * in a small
and neat roman character, the register occupying the fii’st page:’ but