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Title
collection of emblemes, ancient and modernequickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation : the first-[fourth] booke
Authors and contributors
  • Wither, George, 1588-1667. creator
  • Matthewes, Augustine. printer.
  • Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637. engraver.
  • Marshall, William, active 1617-1650. engraver.
  • Grismond, John. bookseller.
Publisher
Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Iohn Grismond, and are to be sold at the signe of the Gunne in Ivie-Lane
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Place of Publication
London
Publication Date
MDCXXXV. [1635]
Physical Description
reformatted digitalprint[20], 62, [6], 63-124, [6], 135-196, [6], 209-270, [10] p. : ill. (engravings, woodcuts), port. (engraving) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Language
  • eng
Subjects
  • Emblems -- Early works to 1800
  • Emblem books, English -- Early works to 1800
  • Great Britain England London
Notes
  • by George VVither.
  • In verse.
  • Printer's name from STC.
  • One of five imprint variants of this edition.
  • The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for "Nucleus emblematorum" by Gabriel Rollenhagen. Cf. STC.
  • With an added engraved title page: "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: VVill: Marshall¨ sculp:
  • The second (I4r), third (S4r), and fourth (2D4r) books each have a separate title page, with imprint "printed by Augustine Matheuues. MDCXXXIV [1634]"; pagination and register are continuous.
  • The first leaf bears "A preposition to this frontispiece".
  • The last leaf bears two woodcut dials each with a movable pointer fixed in the center.
  • Signatures: pip4s *p4s(-*1,2) A-Ip4s Kp2s L-Sp4s p2s*p2s V-2Dp4s p3s*p2s 2F-2Op4s.
  • Pages 120, 183, and 190 are incorrectly numbered 118, 283, and 290, respectively.
  • Title vignette (printer's device of Mathewes); tail-pieces; initials.
  • Includes index.
  • Imperfect: Library's copy lacks first and last leaves ("Preposition" and lottery volvelles). 5 IU-R
  • Cancelled ownership inscriptions on t.p., one partially read: [S?]arah [N?]orwick.
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