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 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

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GRAMMARS AND LEXICONS. sVenice; 1499.

two Greek capitals, A, beneath; one printed in a large, and the other
in a comparatively small, size. Of this very elegant Etruscan orna-
ment, having the printer’s initials in the centre, I present the reader
with a fac-simile of the central compartment only: the subjoined in-
scription of the name of the printer’s patron, will be found at the
bottom of the rectangular portions of it.

To these we may add two specimens of the smaller letters above
alluded to ; while the reader, on consulting page 37 of the preceding
volume, may observe with what extraordinary taste and beauty the
larger letters are executed.

The beginning of each letter of the alphabet is decorated with similar
ornaments. The signatures extend to AA of the second alphabet: A,
of the first alphabet, having 10 leaves; and AA, of the second, only 6
leaves. All the intermediate ones have 8 leaves. On the reverse AA v,
we read the colophon, thus :

To fj*=soL erufj.oXosix.ov evTuvrooSev, nrepag eiXrjtpev rjdrj cuv sseas ev evel'iat$ .
avuX<jofJ.a<Tt fjsev, rou eusevou$ xa) dox.lfj.ou avSpo;, xuplou NjxoXaou