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    jan. 16,1SS2 The Publishers' Circular 3

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    the Boccaccio gems of the first sale , there are some rare editions of Dante in the present cata-H I """ assi logue S gned W « — , ¦* - k including -n to bv v Pt M the PB oa ^ commencement - ^^ a ^_ r auoa Bl MS * - * a . . m * PPB of ^^ A ^^ * the A * ^ r --m Bl .. Inferno f . < k ^ of ^ -r ^ Bthe w ^» B « b * - , with _» 13 BBi - B < -f th »* Bl A ^* . an century ^ r ¦^_/ * elabora A V \& l . * B ; ft t and e L AVIi Lat then V in A * V > C KJL ommen follow _ L V < r •¦> &^/ T V t a series y >^ ^/ by - _ — . ^^•_ Gu " of V ^ BB * ido ¦ k very * ^^ of _ k _ T P rare isa *^ W- " » _ , > ^^ ^^— ^ — . _ . _^ _

    I printed editions , including the first edition of 1472 , and other scarcely less ^^ choice tomes j I I the published Fathers within of the the Church next is ten most years imposi . The and list there of first are editions some beautifu of rare l works specimens , especiall of books y of

    I printed on vellum . , ng ,

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    jan . 16 , 1 SS 2 The Publishers' Circular 3

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    I I of the The equall dispersal superb of the Blenheim collection Library of the is Duke to be of followed Hamilton by ' s the Library sale , in a th t e coming t s summer tored in ,

    I Hamilton Palace y . ThoBeckford Library , which forms the most important , part presen of the property , ¦ p I hands was 1 *_ removed I fro *^ m Fonthill b BB > A by ^^ the 10 th Buke- ^ , Bm the BiBBBbgrandfather ^ _ Bb > of -Bk the presen B « m t Peer B *» A , into whose * Pat / •'

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    I I library 18 in preparation will be sold . The in June manuscri , by pts Messrs alone . Sotheb number y , about Wilkinson 800 , , with and Hod exam ples , and of a B catalogue yzantine , H 1- alian < lll ft , cen 71 . German ( TflPinnn Netherlandish "NTc » -fT-. CBT » lr » r-. /^ tci 7- » and nn / l French "IT 1 run * - »] -. pala i-i « ilfr 3 > rvm « aw \ l h » the Tr and onrl minia T . 11 " " > irt- t f ure f ira from fr'r \ m t 4 : he \ m ^ 9 t . h t "i ~ . o t fll he fl

    I ^ j ^ n , tury . Among , these are , a folio Ev angeliarium ograp of 12 th century , finely illuminated ; I j Greek manuscri ta pt , with painted figures in the borders , having a carved ivory relief on the

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    I WildeBbeim * , lt ° * . ^ . But * uni , the que Italian , being manuscri the Divina pts Commedia are even more of gy Dante interesting in folio and , each of , page extreme illus rarit trated y . ; I «! ^ e i hand a P * of * the e drawn famous in master outline Botticelli with the pen ho , and though b admire y various of ar Dante tists , yet id many are well by

    I . u !?^ ^ e < ^ * drawings from which , w Baccio was a Baldini great engraved r his illustrati , ar , ons as in the I tk ln ° e *? ition ^ > a rare co Py of which le is of the 15 th gem of tho art Althorp and the Library drawings - This manuscri pronounced pt ,

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 16, 1882, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16011882/page/3/