Whitney's "Choice of emblemes." A fac-simile reprint

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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Reproduction of original t.-p.: 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 The facsimile (photolithographed) is in two parts 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 "illustrative plates" (numbered 1-63) between pages 414 and [415] include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc "Biographical notices of the printers Plantin and Rapheleng, and of the emblem-writers to whom Whitney was indebted": p. 266-292: "Shakespeare's references to emblem-books, and to Whitney's Emblems in particular": p. 293-312 Includes index Library's copy lacking list of subscribers, p. 435-439
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