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<dl><dd>Title in red and black</dd>
<dd>Final page blank</dd>
<dd>Engraved title vignette; head- and tail-pieces</dd>
<dd>Numbers CCCLXVI-CCCLXVII omitted in the fourth group of paging; numbers CCCIII-CCCVI and CCCV-CCCVI repeated in the sixth group of paging</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [*]⁴ **a-**l² A-2Z⁴ 3A⁴(-3A1) 3B-3T⁴ a-2o⁴ 2p⁴(-2p4) chi⁴ 2q⁴(-2q1) 2r-2x⁴</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Compiled by Giovanni Battista Pasquall</dd>
<dd>The critical notes are by Giovanni degli Agostini and Girolamo Zanetti. Cf. Pref</dd>
<dd>The collection was made by Smith while consul at Venice; purchased by George IV in 1765 for £10,000 and now forms part of the King's Library at the British Museum</dd>
<dd>Bound in stiff paper wrappers; ink title on spine; pages uncut</dd>
<dd>4 preliminary leaves, xliii, dxix, [1], cccxlviii (i.e. 352), [3] pages ; 25 cm</dd>
<dd>Numbers CCCIII-CCCVI repeated in the final group of paging</dd>
<dd>Title vignette; head and tail pieces</dd>
<dd>Compiled by Giovanni Battista Pasquali</dd>
<dd>"Præfationes et epistolæ, voluminibus editis appositæ, ab incunabulis typographiæ ante annum MCCCCC."</dd>
<dd>The critical notes are by Giovanni degli Agostini and Girolamo Zanetti. cf. Pref</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Smith, Joseph, 1682-1770; British Museum. King's Library; Rare books; Incunabula; Smith, Joseph, 1682-1770 -- Library -- Catalogs; British Museum. King's Library -- Catalogs; Rare books -- Catalogs; Incunabula -- Catalogs</div>
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Smith, Joseph, 1674-1770</div>
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