A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne
Subtitle: Quickened vvith metracial illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant Recreation
By: By George Wither. ; The first-[fourth] booke
Contributors: Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, engraver; Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, engraver; Matthewes, Augustine, printer; Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller; Rollenhagen, Gabriel, 1583-1619
Publisher: Printed by A.M. [i.e. Augustine Matthewes] for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the Black Beare in Pauls Church-yard.
Published: 1635
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Withers Emblemes. London. 1635
Notes: Signatures: pi² (*)⁴ A-I⁴ ²(*)² L-S⁴ ³(*)² V-2D⁴ ⁴(*)² 2F-2O⁴.

Leaf 2N1 missigned N.

With an additional engraved title page (signed: "VVill Marshall sculp."); the title page is preceded by a leaf containing an explanatory verse to the title page illustration: "A preposition to this frontispiece."

With an engraved portrait of the author: p. [16] of preliminaries; portrait signed: I.P. (not identified).

Each book has a separate title page; books 2-4 have imprint: "London, Printed by Augustine Mathevves. MDCXXXIV."

The 200 plates of the emblems were engraved by Crispijn van de Passe, the elder for Gabriel Rollanhagen's 2v. Nucleus emblematum (1611-1613); Wither bought the plates for this edition. Cf. Landwehr, J. Emblem books, the Low Countries, no. 573.

Index: p. [1]-[5] at end.

Final leaf contains woodcut volvelles to be used with the text.

In verse.

One of five imprint variants of this edition. Cf. STC 25900a-d.

Not in ESTC.

STC (2nd ed.), 25900