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.
To the Reader.
Peruse with heed, then frendlie iudge, and blaming rashe refraine:
So maist thou reade vnto thy good, and shall requite my paine.
Imprinted at Leyden, In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius. M. D. LXXXVI.
4o. (81⁄4 × 6). P. 1.
Collation: *42*43*2A-Z4a-f4, paged. Wanting f 4 (? blank). Large woodcut of the achievement of Robert, Earl of Leicester, on verso of titlepage. Epistle dedicatory to the same, signed and dated London, Nov. 28, 1585. Address to the reader, signed and dated Leyden, May 4, 1586. Commendatory verses in Latin from Ianus Dousa à Noortwijck, Bonaventura Vulcanius Brugensis, Petrus Colvius Brugensis, Stephanus Limbertus Anglus Nordovicensis, and in English from Arthur Bourchier. Verses of the author, headed 'D. O. M.' and list of errata. Part ii begins with a separate titlepage, without imprint but bearing Leicester's crest, on sig. O 1, followed by verses on Warwick and Leicester. Woodcuts in the text throughout.
Sinker 998. BM 1591.
WOTTON, Sir Henry.
Reliquiæ Wottonianæ: or, a Collection Of Lives, Letters, Poems; with Characters of Sundry Personages: And other Incomparable Pieces of Language and Art. Also Additional Letters to several Persons, not before Printed. By the Curious Pencil of the ever Memorable Sir Henry Wotton, Kt. Late Provost of Eaton Colledge. The Third Edition, with large Additions. London, Printed by T. Roycroft, for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins, and J. Ford, 1672.
8o. (63⁄4 × 41⁄4). U. 5.
Collation: A8b-e8f4C-2Q8, paged. Wanting 2Q 8 (? blank). Engraved portrait by Dolle. Epistle dedicatory to Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, signed Izaak Walton and dated Feb. 27, 1672. Address to the reader. 'An Account of the Work.' Life of Wotton signed Iz. Wa. Elegy on Wotton signed A. Cowley. Letter from Wotton to Marcus Velserus of Augsburg in Latin and same in English, dated 'London, Decemb. 2. after the Julian Accompt' 1612. Letter from Wotton to the Regius Professor of Divinity in Cambridge dated Jan. 17, 1637. Table of contents at the end. Contains an engraved portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, at sig. K 2v and of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, at sig. P 8v, both signed by Dolle. The first edition appeared in 1651; this is the third.
YONG, Bartholomew.