A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, 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

Author/creator Whitney, Geffrey
Format Electronic
Publication InfoImprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, M.D.LXXXVI. [1586]
Description[20], 230, [2] p. : ill. (woodcuts)
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Variant title Choice of emblemes, and other devises
Variant title Choice of emblemes, and other devises.
SeriesEarly English books online. ^A888680
General noteIn verse.
General noteThe second part has divisional title page; pagination and register are continuous.
General noteThe last leaf is blank.
General notePage 2*3r is in two states; line 18 ends (1) "and" or (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) p. 109 has "Fato non Fortuna", or (2) p. 119 has "Ex damno alterius".
General noteReproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
References STC (2nd ed.) 25438.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 401:7)
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