A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And diuers newly deuised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment.
- Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?
- Date:
- M.D.LXXXVI. [1586]
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Choice of emblemes, and other devises
Choice of emblemes, and other devises.
Publication/Creation
Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, M.D.LXXXVI. [1586]
Physical description
20 unnumbered pages, 230 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts).
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References note
STC (2nd ed.) 25438.
Notes
In verse.
The second part has divisional title page; pagination and register are continuous.
The last leaf is blank.
Page 2*3r is in two states; line 18 ends (1) "and" or (2) "behalfe"; the latter is partly reimposed and reset. Quires O and P are in two impositions, each imposition with a woodcut not in the other; (1) p. 109 has "Fato non Fortuna", or (2) p. 119 has "Ex damno alterius".
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 401:7) s1999 miun s