Whitney's Choice of emblemes
Subtitle: A fac-simile reprint from the Leyden edition of 1586
By: Edited by Henry Green ....
Contributors: Green, Henry, 1801-1873.; Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.; Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584.; Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1866
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: eng
Subjects: Whitney family.; Plantin family.; Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources.; Emblems.
Other titles: Choice of emblemes.
Notes: Six copies of this form of Whitney's Emblemes published for private distribution only - handwritten note by the editor.

The facsimile (photolithographed) is in two parts.

Most of the emblems are from earlier works published by Plantin, more than half being identical with those in the works of Alciati, Paradin, and Sambucus. cf. p. 252.

The 72 "illustrative plates" (numbered 1-63) between pages 414 and [415] include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc.

Genealogical tables of (1) "Whitney, of Whitney, in Herefordshire", and (2) "Whitney of Chinnor and Islip, Oxfordshire".

"Biographical notices of the printers Plantin and Rapheleng, and of the emblem-writers to whom Whitney was indebted": p. 266-292: "Shakespeare's references to emblem-books, and to Whitney's Emblems in particular": p. 293-312.

Reproduction of original t.-p.: A choice of emblemes, and other devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney ... Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius. M.D.LXXXVI.