An edition of Whitney's "Choice of emblemes" (1866)

Whitney's "Choice of emblemes."

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Lovell Reeve & co.
Language
English
Pages
442

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Subjects

Emblems, Sources

People

Plantin family, Whitney family, William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

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Whitney's Choice of emblemes: A fac-simile reprint from the Leyden edition of 1586
1866, s.n.]
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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 facsimiles of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc

"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

Includes index

Library's copy lacking list of subscribers, p. 435-439

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Choice of emblemes

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Pagination
lxxxviii, [18], 440 [i.e. 442] p., 72 p. of plates.
Number of pages
442

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OL14464944M
LCCN
18023867

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