Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . £>.y,V -*? .?-*- ,r.^r- *MIj,. mEMBBANBTS MOTHEB,. From the Original raiuting br Rembrandt, in the totsetsion of Earl Spencer, at Althorp. / Lrndiii. fuhltshtil rrr WZff. THE LIBRARY. 21 as a Drcnving Room; where the company assemble on risingfrom the dinner table. It is now scarcely twenty-five years since this room con-tained the whole of his Lordships library; and that portion
Aedes Althorpianae, or, An account of the mansion, books, and pictures of Althorp : the residence of George John Earl Spencer to which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana . £>.y,V -*? .?-*- ,r.^r- *MIj,. mEMBBANBTS MOTHEB,. From the Original raiuting br Rembrandt, in the totsetsion of Earl Spencer, at Althorp. / Lrndiii. fuhltshtil rrr WZff. THE LIBRARY. 21 as a Drcnving Room; where the company assemble on risingfrom the dinner table. It is now scarcely twenty-five years since this room con-tained the whole of his Lordships library; and that portion ofit which, in the engraving, is seen through the pillars, was setapart for the reception of Editiones Principes, and Booksprinted in the Fifteenth Century. Here it was that Gibbondescribed himself as having exhausted a whole morning (incompany with the noble owner) among the first editions ofCicero.* Were that celebrated historian now alive, and en-gaged in a similar pursuit, he would find the toil of investigationa little more severe; as the number in that class of Books (pre-served for the last twenty years at Spencer House) is prodigi-ously increased. The shelves, as seen
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