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 ...

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15483225

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Title: 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 ...
Creator: Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?
Contributor: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550
Crewe,--Baron (Crewe Hall)--Bookplate (BEIN 1977 2719)
Paradin, Claude, active 16th century
Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584
Published / Created: 1586
Publication Place: Imprinted at Leyden,
Publisher: In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius.
Description: 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.
Part 2 has special t.-p., with the crest of the earls of Leicester and Warwick.
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.
Signatures: *-**⁴***² A-A⁴ a-e⁴ f³.
Extent: 10 p.l., 230 p. illus. 22 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Jc30 17v

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: Emblem books
Resource Type: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Name): Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550
Crewe,--Baron (Crewe Hall)--Bookplate (BEIN 1977 2719)
Paradin, Claude, active 16th century
Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584
Subject (Topic): Printing--Netherlands, 16th cent., Leyden, F. Raphelengius (Plantin), 1586--Specimens

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
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Citation: STC 25438

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 3284149
Object ID (OID): 15483225