A choice of emblemes, and other deuises
Subtitle: for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And diuers newly deuised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment
Series: Early English books online
Publisher: In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius
Published: 1586
Place of publication: Imprinted at Leyden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: English Emblem books; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Choice of emblemes, and other devises; Choice of emblemes, and other devises.
Notes: In verse.

The second part has divisional title page; pagination and register are continuous.

Signatures: *-2*⁴ 3*² A-Z⁴ a-f⁴.

The last leaf is blank.

Leaf 2*3 recto is in two states; state 1, line 18 ends  "and"; state 2,"behalfe"; the latter is partly reimposed and reset. Quires O and P are in two impositions, each imposition with a woodcut not in the other; (1) page 109 has "Fato non Fortuna" or (2) page 119 has "Ex damno alterius".

Includes errata (page [20] first sequence).

STC (2nd ed.) 25438.

Numerous signatures of John Edwards on inside front cover, front flyleaves, and title page, one dated 1714[?].

Inscription: Value 3 dollars. Sam. Edwards.

Inscription and stamp of the American Antiquarian Society. Sold stamp on inside rear cover.

Leaf 2*3 recto in state 1; gatherings O-P in state 2.

Imperfect: lacking pages 163-164;pages [1]-[12] at beginning and pages 227-230 torn with some loss of text.

Pen trials and some markings in pencil.

Bound in limp vellum, partially torn; one set of leather ties remaining; manuscript spine title; in CMI.