Labour vertue glorie
Subtitle: leaves from the emblem books of Gabriel Rollenhagen and George Wither
By: illustrated with diverse comments historic and critical, assembled and annotated by Simius Cælestibus
Contributors: Wither, George, 1588-1667; Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder; Heavenly Monkey (Firm)
Publisher: Heavenly Monkey
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Printing; History; Emblems; Early works to 1800; Emblem books
Description: A study of George Wither's A Collection of Emblemes Ancient & Moderne and Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus Emblematum Selectissimorum, including leaves from from each book bound in.
Notes: With leaves containing the same engravings from Rollenhagen and Wither, along with a text leaf from the preliminary notes and dedications in Wither's book, as a frontis. These copies have been bound by Claudia Cohen: numbers 1-7 in full leather, with a matching box and a third Wither leaf inserted opposite this colophon; numbers 8-16 in quarter leather.

Rare Book copy: No. 15

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A note from the printer about this leaf book ;; title: the players in our story ;; title: leaves from Wither's and Rollenghagen's Emblem Books ;; title: What is an emblem? ;; title: George Wither's Collecions of Emblemes ;; title: Augustine Mathewes, Printer (and Rascal) ;; title: Wither, Mathewes, and the patent ;; title: Extracts from Wither's notes: a proposition to this frontispiece ;; title: To the reader ;; title: The occasion, intention and use of the foure lotteries ;; title: A direction for playing the lotteries ;; title: The Lotterie Volvelles.