A Choice of Emblemes

Title

en_US A Choice of Emblemes

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Edited by Henry Green

Creator

en_US Alciati, Andrea See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:12:52Z

en_US 2002-11

en_US 1866

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:12:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1866

Abstract

en_US First published in Leyden in 1586 by Geffrey Whitney. This is the reissue in London in 1866, edited by H. Green. See my 1967 reprint of this reissue. This is a major inventory of emblems, including some 247 emblems and 92 dedications. There are significant essays and notes on the emblems after the inventory Do not overlook the T of C on ix. The first collection of emblems was Andreas Alciati's Emblemata published in Augsburg in 1531. Apparently, some three hundred emblem books were published between 1531 and 1700. On lxxxv one finds Whitney's helpful index of motives, Latin and English. His work is an anthology culled from a number of emblem books. For good examples of both text and image see The Goat and the Wolf Whelp (49) and Anellus' Wife (80). I have been amazed at how many fable motifs and fables show up in this work. In all, I find some fifty-three of these emblems using fables and fable-motifs. See my handwritten notes on them at the back of the 1967 reproduction. Typical non-fables are on 172, where a candle, book, and hour-glass help to warn us to use the time, and on 181, which shows the traits of occasio, which I take to indicate especially opportunity. Horace, Ovid, and Livy seem to be the ancient authors most frequently referred to. The second part (beginning on 105) seems to offer famous Romans as subjects up to 117. After working my way, somewhat laboriously, through the 1967 reproduction, I was pleasantly surprised to find this volume waiting for me at a San Mateo bookfair.

Identifier

en_US 4540 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80201

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Lovell Reeve & Co.; Minshull & Hughes; E.H. Griffiths

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR2388.W4 C5 1866 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole