A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke.
1635
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Title
A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne : quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke.
Created/published
London : Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Robert Allot, and are to be sold at the Blacke Beare in Pauls Church-yard, M D CXXV. [1635]
Description
[20], 62, [6], 63-124, [6], 135-196, [6], 209-270, [10] p. : ill. (copper-plate engravings, woodcut) ; (fol.)
Associated name
Wither, George, 1588-1667, author.
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, printmaker.
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, printmaker.
Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Marshall, William, active 1617-1650, printmaker.
Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, printmaker.
Allot, Robert, active 1625-1636?, bookseller.
Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner.
Note
In verse.
Printer's name from internal title pages.
The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum (Arnheim, 1611) and Emblematum centuria secunda (Arnheim, 1613).
With additional engraved title page (pi2r), "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: Will: Marshall· sculp:.
First leaf bears "A preposition to this frontispiece".
Imprimatur on verso of title page: Recensui hoc poëma, ... haec licentia sit omninò irita. Ex aedibus Lambithanis Iul. 2. 1634. Guil. Bray.
Second, third, and fourth books each have a separate title page dated 1634; pagination and register are continuous.
Last leaf bears two woodcut dials.
Stationers' register: Ent. to Allot, Grismond, Milbourne, Royston, a. Taunton 10 mr. 1634.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ [superscript pi]*² A-I⁴ K² L-S⁴ *² V-2D⁴ [superscript chi]*² 2F-2O⁴.
Includes index.
One of five imprint variants of this edition.
[superscript pi]*1 signed *3.
Printer's name from internal title pages.
The emblems are printed from plates originally engraved by Crispijn van de Passe the elder for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum (Arnheim, 1611) and Emblematum centuria secunda (Arnheim, 1613).
With additional engraved title page (pi2r), "Emblemes. Illustrated by Geo. Wither.", signed: Will: Marshall· sculp:.
First leaf bears "A preposition to this frontispiece".
Imprimatur on verso of title page: Recensui hoc poëma, ... haec licentia sit omninò irita. Ex aedibus Lambithanis Iul. 2. 1634. Guil. Bray.
Second, third, and fourth books each have a separate title page dated 1634; pagination and register are continuous.
Last leaf bears two woodcut dials.
Stationers' register: Ent. to Allot, Grismond, Milbourne, Royston, a. Taunton 10 mr. 1634.
Signatures: [pi]⁴ [superscript pi]*² A-I⁴ K² L-S⁴ *² V-2D⁴ [superscript chi]*² 2F-2O⁴.
Includes index.
One of five imprint variants of this edition.
[superscript pi]*1 signed *3.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2010. Lost at Sea.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 25900
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S95898
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S95898
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 25900 copy 1
Folger-specific note
Smedley. Imperfect: many leaves, including t.p., trimmed or torn, affecting text, and with some print supplied in MS.; lacking [pi]1, A4; lacking 2O3,4, with leaf bearing volvelles supplied in MS. facsimile and backed. Made-up copy (?). 2A1 misbound before B1. Engr. t.p. trimmed and backed. Engr. port. of Wither trimmed and pasted to a front fly-leaf. Sheepskin binding with blind tooled panels, by Co-operative Bookbinder's, London; decorative end-papers. Provenance: inscription on K4v: "Matt: Watterhouse Booke 1695", and in a different hand "is a foole Will: [Mars?]halls"; inscriptions on S4v: "Isabell Sleddal", "Thoams Feilden", and "Zacheus Canby 16[7?]9"; bookplate of W.T. Smedley (motto "forward")
Call number
STC 25900 copy 2
Folger-specific note
Curatorial file available. Smedley. Imperfect: lacking sig.[pi] (including t.p.), G3, Z2, 2H2, 2M1 and all after 2N3. I4 misbound before [superscript pi]*1. A3,4, X4 and Y1 stained, C4, N3 and sigs.2L-2N torn away and repaired, affecting text. Red sheepskin binding with blind tooled panels and a gilt spine. Provenance: book-label of W.T. Smedley