Screen LibraryWhitney's "Choice of emblemes" : a fac-simile reprint /
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L. Reeve,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 1866. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lowendahl Reference Books Collection
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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. Added t.p. has note: For private distribution only. 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. The 72 plates (numbered 1-63)--at end of vol.2 include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printer's devices, etc. |
| Carrier Form: | 440 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables, plates, portraits ; 26 cm. |
| CLC: | I561.23 |
| Call Number: | LVC-002672 |
| Contents: | vol.1 Introductory dissertation, Essay literary and bibliographical, and notes.- vol.2 Facsimile and plates. |