[70] [The finest copy of this valuable edition, which I ever saw, is that in the Public Library at Cambridge.]
[71] See Bibl. Spenceriana; vol. i. page 272.
[72] [I had called it a UNIQUE copy; but M. Crapelet says, that there was a second similar copy, offered to the late Eugene Beauharnais.]
[73] [It is the Edition of Verard, of the date of 1504. The copy looks as if it had neither Printer's name or date, because the last lines of the colophon have been defaced. See Cat. des Livr. Iniprim. sur Vèlin de la Bibl. du Roi. vol. iii. p. 35. CRAPELET.]
[74] At page 599, &c.
[75] [See Cat. des Livr. sur Vélin, vol. iv. No. 236.]
[76] Vol. iii. p. 176.
[77] [Mr. Hibbert's beautiful copy, above referred to, is about to be sold at the sale of his library, in the ensuing Spring; and is fully described in the Catalogue of that Library, at p. 414: But the fac-simile portrait of Francis Sforza, prefixed to the Catalogue, wants, I suspect, the high finished brilliancy, or force, of the original.]
[78] [Not so: see the Introduction to the Classics , vol. 1. p. 313. edit. 1827 The only known copy of the first volume, UPON VELLUM, is that in the Library of New College, Oxford.]
[79] See the Bibliographical Decameron; vol. iii. p. 165.