ENGLISH EMBLEM BOOKS

by Rosemary Freeman

A$80 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Pp. xiv+256, frontispiece plus 31 plates, appendices, indices; boards lettered and decorated in gilt, top fore-corner of upper board faintly bruised; dust wrapper, slightly soiled and foxed, the backstrip lightly faded, with a couple of small chips and splits at head & foot; half-title page faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 1967. Second impression. *Emblem books emblematic pictures with explanatory text exerted a powerful influence on

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