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.
4^o. (8-1/4 × 6). P. 1.
Collation: *^{4}2*^{4}3*2A-Z^4a-f^4, 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,
K^t. 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.
8^o. (6-3/4 × 4-1/4). U. 5.
Collation: A^8b-e^8f^4C-2Q^8, 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 2^v and of George
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, at sig. P 8^v, both signed by Dolle.
The first edition appeared in 1651; this is the third.