Accession number
PML 6592
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 Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
5th issue.
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: VVill: Marshall· sculp:.
Each book has special t.p.; books 2-4 have imprint: London, Printed by Avgvstine Mathevves, 1634.
Signatures: 2 leaves (unsigned), *⁴, A-I⁴ K² L-S⁴, *² V⁴ X-Z⁴ Aa-Dd⁴, (*)², Ff-Oo⁴.
Irregularities in pagination. Torn at foot of Mm3.
McKerrow - Printer's device no. 304 without the W.B.
Spine title: Wither's Emblemes.
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.
PML copy has upper pointer only in the double woodcut on last leaf.
With an additional title page, engraved, "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: VVill: Marshall· sculp:.
Each book has special t.p.; books 2-4 have imprint: London, Printed by Avgvstine Mathevves, 1634.
Signatures: 2 leaves (unsigned), *⁴, A-I⁴ K² L-S⁴, *² V⁴ X-Z⁴ Aa-Dd⁴, (*)², Ff-Oo⁴.
Irregularities in pagination. Torn at foot of Mm3.
McKerrow - Printer's device no. 304 without the W.B.
Spine title: Wither's Emblemes.
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.
PML copy has upper pointer only 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)
Inscriptions/Markings
Manuscript notes commenting on text (leaves D2v-D3r, D4r-v, and E1r).
Provenance
Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698-1761), countess of Pomfret, bookplate (front pastedown); Rene du Bois, cited by Irwin; Cecil Dunn Gardner (b. 1827), 1854, pencil inscription (front endleaf 1 verso), and bibliographic notes, his sale, Sotheby and Wilkinson, 6 July 1854, lot 2450 for £7 to Skeffington; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from J.O. Wright; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
17th-century English mottled calf, rebacked in 1/4 brown morocco. Corners chipped.
Classification
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