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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sabbatical precept; while an itinerant shewer of beasts, at a fair, with
a cart full of monkies, and a church in the background, describe the
mode of violating the Sabbath. The passion, or folly, of Credulity
is admirably personified in the ensuing cut:

It is now time to draw this article to a close; not however without
indulging a hope that the preceding illustration of this entertaining
volume may be gratifying to those who happen to be in possession of
it, and may stimulate others to purchase it when a favourable oppor-
tunity shall osfer. Of the remaining cuts, those on fol. cxvm reverse,
cxxi reverse, cxxn reverse, cxxm reverse, cxxiv reverse, cxxix
reverse, cxxxvi reverse, cxxxviii reverse, cxl recto, have greater
merit in delineation and execution; but those on the reverses of folios
cxxx and cxxxi, repesenting the contest or rivalry between Pleasure
and Virtue, are not a little singular and uncommon ; and might, indeed,
have been here introduced with esfect.