Dibdin, Thomas Frognall: Aedes Althorpianae; or an account of the Mansion, Books and Pictures at Althorp; the Residence of George John Earl Spencer, K.G. to which is added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. [...] London: printed by W. Nicoll, successor to W. Bulmer and Co. Shakespeare Press, and sold by Payne and Foss [etc] 1822
(Lowndes). Spencer’s vast collection of incunabula and fine early printing is now an integral part of the Rylands Library. Dibdin prepared the first part of the catalogue in 1814-15, and a final supplementary volume was published in 1823, to include books recently acquired from the library of the Duke di Cassani Serra. Given the subject matter of these volumes, they are often afforded a separate entry in library catalogues and bibliographies., 2 vols. 8vo. pp. viii, [iv], lxii, 279, [i]; [vi], 322 + 32 engraved plates, mostly portraits, interiors etc. The plate showing the Archway and Dairy, and the following ground plan of the house, are detached and loosely inserted. The folding plan is defective, lacking its left panel. There are a number of text illustrations, and some use of printing in red and black in the second volume. These volumes form volumes five and six of the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with red morocco labels, joints and headcaps renewed.
The work is intended as a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, forming vols. 5 and 6. It contains an account of the ancestors of Earl Spencer, a history of the mansion, with an account of the pictures, and 32 engravings of the most important in the gallery, a systematic catalogue of editions of the Scriptures, an account of the Aldine editions, not contained in the former volumes. A supplement to the works printed in the fifteenth century.
£400
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