thise.

[Footnote 365: The LIBRARY AT BLENHEIM is one of the
grandest rooms in Europe. The serpentine sheet of water,
which flows at some little distance, between high banks of
luxuriant and moss-woven grass, and is seen from the
interior, with an overhanging dark wood of oaks, is
sufficient to awaken the finest feelings that ever animated
the breast of a bibliomaniac. The books are select and
curious, as well as numerous; and although they may be
eclipsed, in both these particulars, by a few rival
collections, yet the following specimen is no despicable
proof of the ardour with which MARLBOROUGH, the founder of
the Library, pushed forward his bibliomaniacal spirit. I am
indebted to Mr. Edwards for this interesting list of the

ANCIENT CLASSICS PRINTED UPON VELLUM IN THE BLENHEIM LIBRARY.

Apoll. Rhodius 1496
Augustinus, _de Civ. Dei_ _Spirae_ 1470
A. Gellius, _Romae_ 1469
Aug. _de Civ. Dei_ _Jenson_ 1475
Biblia Moguntina 1462
Bonifacii Decretalia 1465
Ciceronis _Rhetorica_ _Jens_ 1470
---- _Epist. Fam._ _Spirae_ 1469
---- _Officia_ _Mogunt_ 1465
---- ---- 1466
---- _Tuscul. Ques._ _Jenson_ 1472
_Clementis Const._ _Mogunt_ 1460
---- _Fust. s.a._
Durandus 1459
Horatius Landini 1482
---- Epist. 1480
Justinian _Mogunt_ 1468
Lactantius _A Rot_ 1471
Lucian _Florent_ 1496
Petrarca _Spira_ 1470
Plinius _Jenson_ 1472
Quintilian _Campani_ 1470
Sallustius _Spira_ 1470
V. Maximus, s.a.
Virgilius _Spira_ 1470

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