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A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened with metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation / By George Wither. The first-fourth booke.

Accession number
PML 6593
Creator
Wither, George, 1588-1667.
Published
London : Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, MDCXXXV [1635].
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Signatures: 2 leaves (unsigned), *⁴, A-I⁴ K² L-S⁴, *² V⁴ X-Z⁴ Aa-Dd⁴, (*)², Ff-Oo⁴.
The 200 plates of the emblems were engraved by Crispin de Passe and originally appeared in the Emblemata Sacra of Rollenhagius, 1611-1613. Cf. H. Green, Andrea Alciati, 1872, p. 248-60, etc.
Without general t.-p.; each book has special t.-p.; books 2-4 have imprint: London, Printed by Augustine Mathewes. 1634.
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: VVill: Marshall· sculp:.
The second, third, and fourth books each have a separate title page dated 1634; pagination and register are continuous.
The last leaf bears two woodcut dials each with a movable pointer fixed in the center.
PML copy has both pointers in the double woodcut on last leaf.
Description
[20], 62, [6], 63-124, [6], 135-196, [6], 209-270, [10] pages : ill. (engravings, woodcuts) ; 30 x 19 cm (fol)
Provenance
Toovey collection; with the bookplate of John Delaware Lewis; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled green morocco, by J. Wright.
Classification
Department