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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. Nicol Shakespeare Press, and sold by Payne and Foss [and others], 1822, 2 volumes in one, 4°, ONE OF 55 LARGE PAPER COPIES, engraved frontispiece, 29 plates and double-page plan in volume I, illustrations, some on india paper, mounted, errata to volume II at end (widely-spread dampstain affecting plates and lower margin of text, offsetting from plates), later 19th-century green morocco gilt, Lord Houghton's corn sheaf crest placed centrally on upper cover (which is detached). [Lowndes II, 640: "Intended as a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana, forming vols. 5 and 6 ... Large paper in royal 4to. 55 copies printed"]