Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves, and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves
Subtitle: a reprint, whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes gathered from divers sources, and entitled Ye garland of ye Sette of Odd Volumes : to which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold, showing a way through the labyrinths of "ye mystic art" to the abode of Cupid : concluding by a few words to the unsentimental sceptic, and an authentic definition of the philosopher's stone
By: by James Roberts Brown, alchymist
Contributors: Wyman, C. W. H. (Charles William Henry), 1832-1909, printer; Thompson, Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips), 1851-1916, inscriber; Bevan, Paul, 1860-1908, former owner; Sette of Odd Volumes (Book club)
Series: Privately printed opuscula issued to the members of the Sette of Odd Volumes -- no. IV; Privately printed opuscula issued to members of the Sette of Odd Volumes -- no. 4.
Publisher: Imprynted by Bro. C.W.H. Wyman
Published: 1883
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Alchemy; Rings; Poetry
Other titles: Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves, and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves; Garland of ye Sette of Odd Volumes.
Notes: Reprint, p. [41]-[63], with reproduction of original t.p., ornaments, tailpiece, etc., of the edition having imprint: London, Printed by Andrew Clark, 1674.

Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes contains: "Poesies" reprinted from "The card of courtship," London, Printed by J.C. for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, p. 66-80; Posie mottoes from rings in the possession of John Evans and Robert Day, p. 81-99.

List of club's members: p. [101]-102.

Rare Book copy: Title page through p.14 wanting. Presented to "The Ready Reckoner" (i.e., Paul Bevan) by "The Magnetizer" (i.e., Silvanus P. Thompson).