WHITNEY'S "CHOICE OF EMBLEMES." A Facsimile Reprint. Edited by Henry Green, M.A., with An Introductory Dissertation, Essays Literary and Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes.
London, Chester & Nantwich: Lovell Reeve & Co. / Minshull & Hughes / E.H. Griffiths. 1866. First Edition Thus. Quarto, original brown cloth decorated in gilt and blind, gilt lettering on spine panel, brown coated endpapers. 440 pp. 500 copies printed for subscriber's only: 50 copies on large paper and 450 copies on "small paper" as here, 314 of which were subscribed. After publication the negatives of the emblem plates were destroyed. Item #312821
¶ Photolithographed facsimile edition of Geffrey Whitney's magnum opus, originally published in 1586 by Christopher Plantin in the Netherlands. The full title of the book is: A Choice of Emblemes and other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralised, and divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable, wherein those that please, may finde to fit their fancies: Because herein, by the office of the eie [eye], and the eare [ear], the minde may reape dooble-delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant devises. The work was most famously used as a source of inspiration for emblem embroidery in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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