CICERO DE ORATORE. Printed in the same Monastery. Without Date.  Folio.  A sound copy, but occasionally scribbled upon.  The side margins are rather closely cropt.

BIBLIA LATINA. 1462.  Folio. 2 vols.  I saw only the first volume, which displays a well-proportioned length and breadth of margin.  The illuminations appear to be nearly coeval, and are of a soft and pleasing style of execution.  Yet the margins are rather deformed by the designation of the chapters, in large roman numerals, of a sprawling character.

BIBLIA ITALICA. Kalend. de Octobrio. 1471.  Folio. 2 vols.  A perfectly magnificent copy (measuring sixteen inches three eighths, by ten and six eighths) of this very rare edition; of which a minute and particular account will be found in the Catalogue of Earl Spencer’s Library.[93] After a careful inspection—­rather than from actual comparison—­I incline to think that these noble volumes came from the press of Valdarfer.  The copy under description is bound in brown calf, with red speckled edges to the leaves.  This is a copy of an impression of which the library may justly be proud.

BIBLIA POLONICA. 1599.  Folio.  In style of printing and embellishment like our Coverdale’s Bible of 1535.  Whether it be a reprint (which is most probable) of the famous Polish Bible of 1563, I am unable to ascertain.

VIRGILIUS. Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. (1469.) Folio.  FIRST EDITION; of the greatest rarity.  Probably this is the finest copy (once belonging to Pius VI.) which is known to exist; but it must be considered as imperfect—­wanting the Priapeia.  And yet it may be doubted whether the latter were absolutely printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz for their first edition?  This copy, bound in white calf, with the papal arms on the sides, measures twelves inches and a quarter in length, by eight inches and five eighths in width:  but the state of the illumination, at the beginning of the Bucolics, shews the volume to have been cropt—­however slightly.  All the illuminations are quiet and pretty.  Upon the whole, this is a very precious book; and superior in most respects to the copy in the Royal Library.[94]

PLINIUS SENIOR. 1469.  Folio.  EDITIO PRINCEPS.  A copy from the same papal library; very fine, both as to length and width.—­You rarely meet with a finer copy. The Jenson edition of 1472 is here comparatively much inferior.

CICERO.  RHETORICA VETUS. Printed by Jenson. 1470.  Folio.  A great curiosity:  inasmuch as it is a copy UPON VELLUM.  It has been cruelly cut down, but the vellum is beautiful.  It is also choked in the back, in binding.  From the collection of the same Pope.

SUETONIUS. Printed by I.P. de Lignamine. 1470.  Folio.  A magnificent copy; measuring thirteen inches and one eighth in height.  The first leaf is, however, objectionable.  From the same collection.

QUINTILIANUS.  INSTITUTIONES. By the same Printer. 1470.  Folio.  This and the preceding book are FIRST EDITIONS.  A copy of equal beauty and equal size with the Suetonius.  From the same Collection.