Whitney's "Choice of emblemes" : a fac-simile reprint / ed. by Henry Green, M.A. ; with an introductory dissertation, essays literary and bibliographical, and explanatory notes.
| Author/creator | Whitney, Geffrey |
| Format | Microform |
| Publication Info | London : Lovell Reeve [etc., etc.], 1866. |
| Description | 3 preliminary leaves, [v]-lxxxviii (i.e. xc) pages, (10 preliminary leaves, 230 pages), [2], [231]-440 pages, 63 (i.e. 72) plate on 44 leaves : illustrations, facsimiles ; 27 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Green, Henry, 1801-1873. |
| Other author/creator | Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550. |
| Other author/creator | Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584. |
| Other author/creator | Paradin, Claude, active 16th century. |
| Series | Library of English literature ; LEL 10549 Library of English literature ; LEL 10549. UNAUTHORIZED |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | The facsimile (photolithographed) is in two parts. |
| General note | 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. |
| General note | The 72 "illustrative plates" (numbered 1-63) between pages 414 and [415] include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc. |
| General note | Genealogical tables of (1) "Whitney, of Whitney, in Herefordshire", and (2) "Whitney of Chinnor and Islip, Oxfordshire". |
| General note | "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. |
| General note | Master microform held by: LrI. |
| Reproduction note | Joyner- Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, 1970. 1 microfiche ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 10549). |
| Other title | Choice of emblemes. |
| LCCN | nuc87821466 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Microforms B300 | ULTRAFICHE LEL 10549 | ✔ Available |