Whitney's "Choice of emblemes"; a fac-simile reprint.

The 72 plates (numbered 1-63) at end of [v. 2] include facsimiles of many additional emblems, printer's devices, etc.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.Added t.p. has note: For private distribution only.Original t.p. reads: 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.[v. 1] Introductory dissertation, Essay literary and bibliographical, and notes.- [v. 2] Facsimile and plates.Mode of access: Internet