Emblemas morales
By: de Don Iuan de Horozco y Couarruuias Arcediano de Cuellar en la Santa Yglesia de Segouia dedicadas a la buena memoria del Presidente Don Diego de Couarruuias y Leyua su tio
Contributors: Cuesta, Juan de la, active 1605, printer; Covarrubias y Leyva, Diego de, 1512-1577, dedicatee; Heber, Richard, 1773-1833, former owner
Publisher: Impresso por Iuan de la Cuesta
Published: 1591
Place of publication: En Segouia
Language: spa
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800; Spanish Emblem books
Notes: Title vignette: arms and emblem of the dedicatee; repeated on 16v, [102]r, and half titles.

Colophon: "En Segouia, Impresso por Iuan de la Cuesta, año de, M.D. LXXXIX."

Second edition; first edition published 1589.

In three books, the first a dissertation on emblems, the second and third containing 50 emblems each; "emblema dedicatoria" on leaves 3r-4v.

Signatures: a-m⁸ n⁶ o-z⁸ 2A-2U⁸.

Final page is blank.

Errors in foliation.

"Libro segundo de las Emblemas Morales ...", pages 102-210, and "Libro tercero de las Emblemas Morales ...", pages [1], 211-311, have special half-titles.

Emblems and half-titles each within 1 of 6 woodcut borders; text within double rule.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices, 395

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 116236

Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-century imagery (2nd ed.), page 374

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, H994

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Stamp: Bibliotheca Heberiana.

Rubenstein Library copy 1: Bound in blind-tooled old full leather, gilt-stamped armorial device on front and back covers, raised bands, gilt-stamped gauffered edges; re-backed.

former call number: D-7 H816E