[121] See the Bibl.  Spencer.; vol. i. page 135-144.

[122] It is singular enough that the Curators of this Library, some twenty
    years ago, threw out PRINCE EUGENE’S copy of the above edition, as a
    duplicate—­which happened to be somewhat larger and finer.  This latter
    copy, bound in red morocco, with the arms of the Prince on the sides,
    now graces the shelves of Lord Spencer’s Library.  See Bibl. 
    Spenceriana, vol. i. p. 305, 7.

[123] See vol. ii. p. 120.

[124] See vol. ii. p:  120.

[125] Including LEXICOGRAPHY.

[126] A copy of this edition (printed in all probability by Fyner of
    Eislingen) was sold at the sale of Mr. Hibbert’s library for L8. 12s.

[127] [Of which, specimens appear in the AEdes Althorpianae, vol. ii.
    p. 273, &c. from the copy in Lord Spencer’s collection—­a copy, which
    may be pronounced to be the FINEST KNOWN copy in the world!]

[128] Bibl.  Spenceriana; vol. iv. p. 121.

[129] Vol. ii. p. 191.

[130] This book is fully described, with numerous fac-similes of the
    wood-cuts, in the AEdes’ Althorpianae, vol. ii. p. 204-213.

[131] Since the above was written, Lord Spencer has obtained a very fine
    and perfect copy of it, through Messrs. Payne and Foss:  which copy
    will be found fully described, with a fac-simile of a supposed
    whole-length portrait of MARCO POLO, in the AEdes Althorpianae, vol.
    ii. p. 176.

[132] I think I remember to have seen, at Messrs. Payne and Foss’s, the
    finest copy of this book in England.  It was upon vellum, in the
    original binding, and measured fourteen inches three quarters by nine
    and a half.  Unluckily, it wanted the whole of the table at the end. 
    See the Bibliog.  Decameron, vol. i. p. 202. [Recently, my
    neighbour and especial good friend Sir F. Freeling, Bart. has
    fortunately come into the possession of a most beautifully fair and
    perfect copy of this resplendent volume.]

[133] While upon the subject of this book, it may not be immaterial to add,
    that I saw the ORIGINAL PAINTINGS from which the large wood blocks
    were taken for the well known work entitled “the Triumphs of the
    Emperor Maximilian” in large folio.  These paintings are in water
    colours, upon rolls of vellum, very fresh—­and rather gaudily
    executed.  They do not convey any high notion of art, and I own that I
    greatly prefer the blocks (of which I saw several) to the original
    paintings.  These were the blocks which our friend Mr. Douce entreated
    Mr. Edwards to examine when he came to Vienna, and with these he
    printed the well-known edition of the Triumphs, of the date of 1794.

LETTER XI.