Excerpt from Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana: Or a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G. &C. &C. &C
The register occupies the recto of the following and last leaf. This, like the greater number of the smaller specimens of De Lignamine's press, is a wretchedly printed little book. In olive morocco binding.
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