Whitney's "Choice of emblemes." A fac-simile reprint.
Title:
Whitney's "Choice of emblemes." A fac-simile reprint.
Author:
Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?
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Publication Information:
London : Lovell Reeve & co.; [etc., etc.], 1866.
Physical Description:
3 preliminary leaves, v]-lxxxviii (that is xc) pages; facsimile (10 preliminary leaves, 230 pages, illustrations), [2 unnumbered pages, [231]-440 pages : illustrations, 63 (that is 72) plates on 44 l., folded tables ; 27 cm
General Note:
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 facsimilies of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc.
Genealogical tables of (1) "Whitney, of Whitney, in Herefordshire", and (2) "Whitney of Chinnor and Islip, Oxfordshire".
"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.
Language:
English
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Format :
Book