Whitney, Geffrey. Whitney's "Choice of emblemes." : A fac-simile reprint

Folger bibliographic ID: 73944
Folger call number: PN6349 .W7 1866
Folger holdings ID: 75818

General notes

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 The facsimile (photolithographed) is in two parts 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 The 72 "illustrative plates" (numbered 1-63) between pages 414 and [415] include facsimilies of many additional emblems, printers' devices, etc Genealogical tables of (1) "Whitney, of Whitney, in Herefordshire", and (2) "Whitney of Chinnor and Islip, Oxfordshire" "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

Extended title: 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

Emblems Whitney family Plantin family Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

author: Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601?
subject: Whitney family
subject: Plantin family
subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
associated with: Green, Henry, 1801-1873
associated with: Alciati, Andrea, 1492-1550
associated with: Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584
associated with: Paradin, Claude, active 16th century
former owner: Green, Henry, 1801-1873
former owner: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934