Whitney's "Choice of emblemes";
a fac-simile reprint.
Edited by Henry Green. With an introductory dissertation, essays literary and bibliographical, and explanatory notes.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London, L. Reeve, 1866.
- Note
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The 72 plates (numbered 1-63) at end of [v. 2] include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printer's devices, etc.
Most of the emblems are from earlier works published by Plantin, more than half being identical with those in the works of Alciati Paradin, and Sambucus. cf. p. 252.
Added t.p. has note: For private distribution only.
Original t.p. reads: A choice of emblemes, and other devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney ... Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, M.D.LXXXVI.
- Physical Description
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2 v.
illus., geneal. tables, plates, ports.
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