Whitney's "Choice of emblemes."
Subtitle: A fac-simile reprint.
By: Ed. by Henry Green, M.A.  With an introductory dissertation, essays literary and bibliographical, and explanatory notes
Contributors: Green, Henry, 1801-1873
Publisher: Lovell Reeve & co.
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Sources; Emblems
Other titles: Choice of emblemes
Notes: 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

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

"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

Includes index

Library's copy lacking list of subscribers, p. 435-439