A collection of Emblemes
By: By George Wither. --
Contributors: Passe, van de, family
Edition: Photo-reprint ed. --
Publisher: Scolar Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Emblems
Other titles: Collection of emblemes ancient and moderne. 1968
Notes: Without general t.-p.; each book has own t.-p.; original t.p. reads: A Collection of Emblemes Ancient and Moderne: Quickened with metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George Wither. Imprint for book 1: London, printed by A.M. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the Blacke Beare in Pauls Churchyard. 1635. Imprint for books 2-4: London, Printed by Augustine Mathewes. 1634.

"Reproduced (original size) by permission of the Librarian, Glasgow University Library, from the copy in the Stirling-Maxwell Collection, press-mark: SM1903 ... The 200 emblematic plates of A Collection of Emblemes are the work of one or more members of the van de Passe family, the distinguished Netherlandish engravers (cf. Arthur M. Hind, Engraving in England, II, 1955, p.245, and Thieme-Becker, XXVI, p.281, s.v. Passe, Crispyn I de, and Crispyn II). They had previously been published in Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus Emblematum Selectissimorum, [1611]-13."-John Horden, Introductory note.

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Many irregularities in paging.