A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises
Subtitle: For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised
By: by Geffrey Whitney ...
Publisher: In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Imprinted at Leyden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Notes: Printer's device on t.-p.; title within ornamental border; full page woodcut of the arms of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, on verso of t.-p.; emblems illustrated with 247 woodcut engravings within ornamental borders. Marginal notes.

Most of the emblems are from earlier works published by Plantin, more than half being identical with those in the works of Alciati, Sambucus, and Paradin. cf. Reprint of Whitney's "Choice of emblemes", edited by Henry Green, 1866. p. 252.

Copy 1 is unbound ; cop. 2 imperfect, lacks p. 203-230.

Cop. 2 is the first ed., with "Isaie" spelled "Esaie", verso of 2d preliminary leaf.

Part 2 has half-title with the crest of the earls of Leicester and Warwick.

Cf. Grolier club, New York. Catalogue of original and early editions of some ... English writers from Langland to Wither ... New York, 1893, p. 230-232.

Signatures: *-**p4s ***p2s A-Zp4s a-fp4s (fb4s blank).

ESTC, S119929

McGeary & Nash.  Emblem books at the University of Illinois, W7.

McGeary & Nash.  Emblem books at the University of Illinois, W8.

STC, 25438