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Mottoes

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Emblems and Insignia
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4 works

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    Paradin, Claude ( -1573) (& others)

    Paradin, Claude, d.1573 | Date: 1689 | Reference: MS.3760
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    The badge of folly; or, a humorous illustration of the mottos, of the nobility, of England, Scotland, and Ireland: with an English translation of each, and an extensive commentary. Designed and executed, by that whimsical delineator, Orator Reynard, Professor of double Entendre, in the College of Momus, for the Cabinet of Laughter

    Reynard, Orator. | Date: 1782
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    • Online

    The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, reverses of medals, anagrams, cyphres and rebus. With a catalogue of the cornet-devises on both sides in the late warres, and those of the Scots taken at the great battails of Dunbar and Preston. The second edition with additions, embellished with divers brasse-figures. By T.B. Gent.

    Estienne, Henry, sieur des Fossez. Art de faire des devises. English | Date: 1655
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    Elvin's Handbook of mottoes / by C.N. Elvin.

    Elvin, Charles Norton | Date: 1971

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