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 ...
Contributors: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550.; Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584.; Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: In the house of Christopher Plantyn by Frances Raphelengius
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Imprinted at Leyden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Emblems -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: STC (2nd ed.) 25438
"The second parte of Emblemes, and other devises" (p. [105]-230) has special t.p.
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.
Signatures: *⁴ 2*⁴ 3*² A-Z⁴ a-f⁴.
LC copy imperfect: last blank leaf wanting.