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• Epigrammata Guilielmi Blanci albiensis iurisconsulti in obeliscum (Ex Officina Bartolomaei Grassij, 1586), by Guillaume Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anagram of his Excellency the Lord Generall George Monck, king come ore ([London : s.n., 1660]), by William Drummond (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Innes of Court anagrammatist: or, The masquers masqued in anagrammes Expressed in epigramique lines, upon their severall names, set downe in the next page. Composed by Francis Lenton Gent. one of her Majesties poets. (London : Printed [by T. Harper] for William Lashe, 1634), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remaines concerning Britain (At London : Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, 1605), by William Camden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The triumph of wit, or, Ingenuity display'd in its perfection. Being the newest and most useful academy, in three parts. Part I. Containing variety of excellent poems, pastorals, satyrs, dialogues, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, choice letters with their answers, ... and exactest collection of choice songs. Part II. Containing the whole art and mystery of love in all its nicest intreagues and curious particulars, ... with the description & anatomy of perfect beauty. Part III. Containing the mystery and art of wheedling and canting, with the original and present management thereof, and the ends to which it serves and is employed. Illustrated with poems, songs and various intreagues in the canting language, with the explanation, &c. To which is added, Instructions for dancing with musical notes. ([n.p.] : Printed for Nicholas Bodington at the Golden Ball in Duck-lane, 1688), by fl. 1680-1702 J. S. (John Shirley) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Royall anagrams expressed in English. (London : Printed by Anne Griffin, 1635), by John Pyne and Arthur Pyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The Homer of Aristotle (B. Blackwell, 1923), by D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salis al-ghāniyāt fī dhawāt al-ṭarfīn min al-kalimāt (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Adabīyah, 1900), by Khayr al-Dīn Nuʾmān ibn Maḥmūd Ālūsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of anagrams, a monograph treating of their history from the earliest ages to the present time; with an introduction, containing numerous specimens of macaronic poetry, punning mottoes, rhopalic, shaped, equivocal, Lyon, and echo verses, alliteration, acrostics, lipograms, chronograms, logograms, palindromes, bouts rimés. (Printed for the author by S. Austin, 1862), by Henry B. Wheatley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dianella: giuochi a premio [in versi] (Tip. E. Ariani, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les anagrammes des noms et surnoms des damoiselles et dames d'Orléans. (Orléans, 1867), by Emmanuel Trippault (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anagrammatographia Nicolai Revsneri Leorini, Comitis Palatini Caesarei : opus ob varios variorum nominum lusus anagrammaticos mirificè iucundum & festivum, melioris causâ in novem libros tributum : accessit Gvilielmi Blanci Albiensis Libellus de ratione anagrammatismi (Apud Tobiam Steinmannum, curante Thoma Schurerio, 1602), by Nikolaus Reusner, Edward Dering, Guilielmus Blancus, and Elias Reusner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remaines concerning Brittaine, but especially England, and the inhabitants thereof: : their languages, names, syrnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, moneys, empresses, apparell, artillerie, wise speeches, prouerbes, poesies, epitaphs (Printed by A.[dam] I.[slip] for Symon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the crowne in Pauls Church-yard., 1629), by William Camden, Simon Waterson, and Adam Islip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neglected anagrams of the Bacon period. (Thearston, 1914), by Ben Haworth-Booth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epigrammata Guilielmi Blanci albiensis iurisconsulti in obeliscum (Ex Officina Bartolomaei Grassij, 1586), by Guillaume Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applausus chronographicus. (Apud Josephum T'Serstevens, bibliopolam propè Templum D. Joannis, 1717), by Petrus vander Borcht and John Landwehr (page images at HathiTrust)
• What's in a name; charades, anagrams, rhymes. (Cambridge, Mass., 1916), by Walter Woodman and W. W. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblia anagrammatica, or, The anagramatic Bible : a literary curiosity gathered from unexplored sources and from books of the greatest rarity ... : with a general introduction and a special bibliography. (Privately printed for the Author [by Hazell, Watson and Viney], 1904), by Walter Begley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biblia anagrammatica, or, The anagrammatic Bible : a literary curiosity gathered from unexplored sources and from books of the greatest rarity (Hazell, Watson, and Viney, 1904), by Walter Begley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ludovici Magni Galliarvm et Navarræ regis, invicti, triumphantis, et pacifici : elvcvbratio anagrammatica-historica : symbolis illustrata (Apud Claudium Marchy ..., 1679), by Gaspard Laugier and Louis Cundier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Non Rhetorice sed Arithmetice orandum est, et quidem per omnes Species (1626), by Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg Christian II, Battista Guarini, Richard Aron, and Richard Aron Collection on European Education (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Juste refutation des injustes louanges qu'impudemment a osé donner un medecin du roi, à Jules Mazarin, le plus scelerat de tous les hommes, et qui est en execration à Dieu, aux anges, et à toute la nature. (Chez François Noel ..., 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours prophetique, contenant quarante-quatre anagrammes sur le nom de Jules Mazarin (Chez Arnould Cotinet ..., 1649) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fames roule: or, The names of our dread soveraigne Lord King Charles, his royall Queen Mary, and his most hopefull posterity: together with, the names of the dukes, marquesses, earles, viscounts ... of his three renowned kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland: anagrammatiz'd and expressed by acrosticke lines on their names. By Mistris Mary Fage, wife of Robert Fage the younger, gentleman (London : Printed by Richard Oulton [for J. Crouch], 1637), by Mary Fage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Remaines concerning Britain their languages, names, surnames, allusions, anagrammes, armories, monies, empreses, apparell, artillarie, wise speeches, proverbs, poesies, epitaphs / written by William Camden ... (London : Printed for Simon Waterson and Robert Clavell, 1657), by William Camden, John Philipot, and Gent W. D. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Upon the death of the virtuous and religious Mrs. Lydia Minot, (the wife of Mr. John Minot of Dorchester;) the mother of five children, who died in child-bed of the sixth; and together therewith was interred January 27. 1667 [1668, new style]. ([Cambridge, Mass. : Printed by Samuel Green, 1668]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Upon the death of that reverend and aged man of God, Mr. Samuel Arnold, Pastor of the church at Marshfield, who deceased in the 71st year of his age, and of his ministry the 36th, September 1. 1693. ([Boston : s.n., 1693]), by Ichabod Wiswell and Samuel Arnold (HTML at Evans TCP)

• VIrtuosius pantheon, Deo & sanctis erectum (In Verlegung Paul Lochners, Buchhändlers, 1723), by Christian Brez, Johan Conradt Reiff, and Paul Lochner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epigrammata Guilielmi Blanci albiensis iurisconsulti in obeliscum (Ex Officina Bartolomaei Grassij, 1586), by Guillaume Blanc (page images at HathiTrust)

• Opvscvla a fratre Angelo Maria de Saluatoribus (Typis Ioannis Sinibaldi ..., 1663), by Angelus Maria De Salvatoribus, Giovanni Sinibaldo, and Italy) Accademia degli inculti (Turin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christophori Avgvsti Hevmanni De libris anonymis ac psevdonymis schediasma : complectens observationes generales et spicilegivm ad Vincentii Placcii Theatrvm anonymorvm et pseudonymorvm. (Apud Io. Felicem Bielckivm, 1711), by Christoph August Heumann and Vincent Placcius (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trois alphabets de chiffres simples, doubles & triples, fleuronnez et au premier trait (Sur le quay des orfevres, au coin de la rue de Harlay, aux armes de Mademoiselle, 1685), by Nicolas Verien, Jean Jouvenet, and Gérard Edelinck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques, au nombre de plus de douze cent, avec leurs explications : accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnez simples, doubles & triples ... : cet ouvrage qui est enrichy de deux cens cinquante planches en taille-douce, est très-utile aux graveurs, peintres, sculpteurs, orfevres, brodeurs, serruriers & à tous ceux qui travaillent au dessein (Chez Claude Jombert ..., 1724), by Nicolas Verien, Gérard Edelinck, and Jean Jouvenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time : and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists (Printed by J. Davis, for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, 1785), by Joseph Strutt, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and Robert Faulder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Mahlerlexikon zur nähern Kenntniss alter und neuer guter Gemählde (Bey Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1796), by Johann Heinrich Ludwig von Winckelmann and Conrad Heinrich Stage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouveau livre de chiffres, qui contient en general tous les noms et surnoms entrelassez par alphabet (Chez l'autheur ..., 1680), by Charles Mavelot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze Erklärung der Zeichen alter berühmter Künstler : welcher sie sich bey Verfertigung der Bildnisse berühmter Männer bey ihren Arbeiten bedient haben : mit 11. Kupfertafeln, welche solche verborgne Zeichen enthalten. (In commission bey Carl Schaumburg und Compagnie, 1798), by Carl Schaumburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de chifres et de lettres ornées, a l'usage de tous les artistes : contenant les vingt-quatre lettres de l'alphabet, combinées de maniere à y rencontrer tous les noms & surnoms entrelassés : pour faire suite au Traité des pierres précieuses & parures de joyalerie (Chez N.M. Tilliard, libraire, quai des Augustins, à Saint-Benoît, 1767), by Jean Henri Prosper Pouget, Nicolas-Martin Tilliard, and Claude Antoine Littret de Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• A complete and useful book of cyphers : wherein the various combinations of the alphabet are ornamentally disposed in the present taste : beautifully engraved on twenty-four copper plates (Published 12th May 1794, by Laurie & Whittle ..., 1794), by John Russell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A biographical dictionary : containing an historical account of all the engravers, from the earliest period of the art of engraving to the present time : and a short list of their most esteemed works : with the cyphers, monograms, and particular marks, used by each master, accurately copied from the originals, and properly explained : to which is prefixed, an essay on the rise and progress of the art of engraving, both on copper and on wood : with several curious specimens of the performances of the most ancient artists (Printed by J. Davis, for Robert Faulder, New Bond Street, 1785), by Joseph Strutt, Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael, and Robert Faulder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Mahlerlexikon zur nähern Kenntniss alter und neuer guter Gemählde (Bey Conrad Heinrich Stage, 1796), by Johann Heinrich Ludwig von Winckelmann and Conrad Heinrich Stage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurze Erklärung der Zeichen alter berühmter Künstler : welcher sie sich bey Verfertigung der Bildnisse berühmter Männer bey ihren Arbeiten bedient haben : mit 11. Kupfertafeln, welche solche verborgne Zeichen enthalten. (In commission bey Carl Schaumburg und Compagnie, 1798), by Carl Schaumburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronological series of engravers from the invention of the art to the beginning of the present century. (Printed by J. Archdeacon, printer to the University : printed for J. Woodyer in Cambridge : and sold by J. Beecroft in Paternoster Row, T. Payne in Castle-Street, T. Davis in Russel-street, Covent Garden, T. Cadell in the Strand, M. Hingeston without Temple-Bar, London : and D. Prince at Oxford, 1770), by Thomas Martyn, John Beecroft, and John Archdeacon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anzeige und Auslegung der Monogrammatum (In Verlage Caspar Fritschens Wittwe, 1747), by Johann Friedrich Christ and Caspar Fritschens Wittwe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anzeige und Auslegung der Monogrammatum (In Verlage Caspar Fritschens Wittwe, 1747), by Johann Friedrich Christ and Caspar Fritschens Wittwe (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Briefe and pleasaunt treatise, intituled: Naturall and artificiall conclusions: written firste by sundry schollers of the Vniuersitie of Padua in Italie, at the instant request of one Bartholmew a Tuscane: and now Englished by Thomas Hyll Londoner, as well for the commoditye of sundrye artificers, as for the matters of plesure, to recreat witts at vacant times.. (Imprinted at London : by Edward Allde., 1586.), by Saint Albertus Magnus, Anglicus Batholomaeus, Girolamo Cardano, Thomas Hill, Antoine Mizauld, and Johann Jacob Wecker (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII (per Ioannem Oporinum., 1555), by Joannes Oporinus, of Caesarea Eusebius, ca. 240-ca. 320 Lactantius, Sixt Birck, and Sébastien Castellion (page images at HathiTrust)
• An achrostickal epitaph on Sir Edward Sprague ([London : s.n., 1673]), by E. M. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Anagram and acrostick on His sacred Majesty, K. James II. Relating to the late triple conjuction of Saturn & Jupiter in Leo, which began in October 1682. and still continues ([London] : Printed byr N.T. at the entrance into Old Spring-garden near Charing-cross, 1685), by Robert Scamler (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo Secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Regi, acrostichis ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Carolo secundo Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regi, acrostichis. ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gratamur geminos rudi achrostichide fratres ad natale solum reduces Regemque Ducemque Celsissimum Eboracensem Jacobum Stuartum ([London : s.n., 1660]), by Philip Woulfe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Great Britains beauties, or, The female glory epitomized, in encomiastick anagramms, and acrostiches, upon the highly honoured names of the Queenes most gracious Majestie, and the gallant lady-masquers in her Graces glorious grand-masque. Presented at White-Hall on Shrove-Tuesday at night, by the Queenes Majestie and her ladies. With disticks, and illustrations, upon their severall anagramms, being in number fifteene, whose names ensure in order on the next side. Published by authoritie. Framed, and formed, by the humble pen of Francis Lenton, the Queenes poet. (London : Printed by Marmaduke Parsons, for Iames Becket, at the Inner Temple Gate, 1638), by Francis Lenton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To his higness Oliver Cromwell, Lord High Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland. ([London : s.n., 1655]), by John Lineall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An acrostick upon the name of Mrs Elizabeth Ball. ([S.l. : s.n., 1700?]), by James Seguin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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