Excerpt from A Manual of Classical Bibliography, Vol. 2: Comprising a Copious Detail of the Various Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics, and of the Critical and Philological Works Published in Illustration of Them, With an Account of the Principal Translations, Into English, French, Italian, Etc
Few books, says Mr. Beloe, are so scarce as the above; besides Lord Spencer's copy, two more only are known, namely, one at Wilton, and one in Count Delci's collection Maittaire, Panzer, Ernesti, and Santan der, erroneously call this edition an 8va. Which error Mr. Dibdin has capied into his Introduction, but corrected in his Bibl. Spencerians. It has neither paging-figures, catch-words, nor signatures; a full page contains 26 lines. On the recto of fol.
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