The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus. First written in French by Henry Estienne, Lord of Fossez, interpreter to the French King for the Latine and Greek tongues: and translated into English by Tho: Blount of the Inner Temple, Gent.
- Estienne, Henry, sieur des Fossez
- Date:
- 1646
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About this work
Also known as
Art de faire des devises. English
Publication/Creation
London : printed by W.E. and J.G. and are to be sold by Richard Royston, at the Angel in Ivie-lane, 1646.
Physical description
18 unnumbered pages, 68 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) E3350A.
Notes
A translation, by Thomas Blount, of: Estienne, Henry. Art de faire des devises.
With an additional engraved title page: The art of making devises. Done into English by Tho. Blovnt Gent: 1646.
Engraved title page signed: W.M. sculpsit.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2048:29) s1999 miun s