The mirrovr of maiestie, or, The badges of honovr conceitedly emblazoned
Subtitle: a photo-lith fac-simile reprint from Mr. Corser's perfect copy, A.D. 1618
By: edited by Henry Green, M.A., and James Croston.
Contributors: Goodyere, Henry, Sir, 1551 or 2-1629.; Croston, James, 1830-1893.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Holbein Society's facsimile reprints ;; v. 3
Publisher: Published for the Holbein Society by A. Brothers ...; Trübner & Co...
Published: 1870
Place of publication: Manchester; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Heraldry -- England; Emblems -- Europe; Heraldry -- England -- Early works to 1800; Emblems -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned; Mirrour of majesty, or, The badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned; Badges of honovr conceitedly emblazoned, with emblemes annexed, poetically unfolded; Mirrour of maiestie, and Forty photo-lith fac-simile plates in illustration of the Mirrour of maiestie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title within ornamental border.
Dedication, prelim. p. [7] of facsimile, signed H.G. (assumed to be Sir Henry Goodyere).
Facsimile includes 40 plates on [36] p. showing emblems chosen from H. Peacham's Minerva Britanna, 1612; Selectorum symbolorum heroicorum centuria, 1619; Le sententiose imprese et dialogo del Symeone, 1560; Pittoni, Imprese de diversi principi [etc.], 1566-1568; and Speculum heroicum ... Homeri, 1613.
"Introduction: A brief review of English emblem-books previous to A.D. 1618, and of The mirror of majesty itself"--P. [65]-180 at end.
Preface by Green and Crostan, p. [v]-viii, discusses "the proper office of the Photographer as an artist in fac-simile reprints."
Facsimile ed. dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Corser, vicar of Stand, Lancashire.
"Notice to subscribers" of Holbein Society publications and list of Holbein Society council members at front.