Whitney's "Choice of Emblemes." A fac-simile reprint
London: Lovell Reeve and Co., 1866. Very Good-. Item #25359
London: Lovell Reeve & Co., 1866. "A Fac-Simile Reprint." Quarto; publisher's brown blind-embossed pictorial cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt, spine recently rebacked, top edge gilt; lxxxviii,[20],440pp.; illus. throughout; forty-four (44) leaves of plates numbered 1-63 (collated complete), text illus. throughout. Boards quite scuffed with shallow losses to corners, spine sturdily rebacked and endpapers renewed, textblock uniformly toned and rather brittle. A Good or better reading copy overall.
Photolithographed facsimile edition of Geffrey Whitney's 1585 magnum opus.
Price: $75.00