Accession number:
PML 2859
Published:
Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, 1586.
Description:
10 p. ., 230 p. illus. 21 cm.
Credit:
Purchase; 1906.
Notes:
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.
Part 2 has half-title with the crest of the earls of Leicester and Warwick.
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.
First edition, with "Isaie" spelled "Esaie", verso of 2d prelim. leaf.
First English emblem book.
Binding:
Original vellum gilt stamped with initials I.H.
Variant Title:
Choice of emblems
Provenance:
Clarence S. Bemens (armorial bookplate); Sir Henry Hope Edwardes (armorial bookplate).
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