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 ...

Description

Main Author

Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?

Language(s)

English

Published

Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, 1586.

Subjects

Emblems > Emblems / Early works to 1800.

Note

Signatures: *-** ***² A-Z a-f (f blank).
Cf. Grolier club, New York. Catalogue of original and early editions of some ... English writers from Langland to Wither ... New York, 1893, p. 230-232.
Part 2 has half-title with the crest of the earls of Leicester and Warwick.
Cop. 2 is the first ed., with "Isaie" spelled "Esaie", verso of 2d preliminary leaf.
Copy 1 is unbound ; cop. 2 imperfect, lacks p. 203-230.
Most of the emblems are from earlier works published by Plantin, more than half being identical with those in the works of Alciati, Sambucus, and Paradin. cf. Reprint of Whitney's "Choice of emblemes", edited by Henry Green, 1866. p. 252.
Printer's device on t.-p.; title within ornamental border; full page woodcut of the arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on verso of t.-p.; emblems illustrated with 247 woodcut engravings within ornamental borders. Marginal notes.

Physical Description

10 p. L., 230 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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