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• Emblem books -- Early works to 1800
• Early works to 1800

• Emblem books, English -- England -- Early works to 1800

• Minerva Britanna or A garden of heroical devises (Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight, 1612), by Henry Peacham and Walter Dight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblemes (Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Henry Taunton, and are to be sold at his shop in Saint Dunstanes Church-yard, 1635), by George Wither, William Marshall, Crispijn van de Passe, and Gabriel Rollenhagen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblemes illustrated by Geo. Wither (Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Iohn Grismond, and are to be sold at the signe of the Gunne in Ivie-Lane, 1635), by George Wither, John Grismond, William Marshall, Crispijn van de Passe, and Augustine Matthewes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théâtre des bons engins. English (London : Printed by Richard Field, 1614), by Guillaume de La Perrière and Thomas Combe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A sight of ye trans-actions of these latter yeares emblemized with ingraven plats, which men may read without spectacles. ([London] : Are to be sould, by Thomas Ienner, in his shop at the old Exhange, [1646]), by John Vicars (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke. (London : Printed by A[ugustine] M[athewes] for Iohn Grismond, and are to be sold at the signe of the Gunne in Ivie-Lane, MDCXXXV. [1635]), by George Wither, Crispijn van de Passe, and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The ages of sin, or Sinnes birth & groweth With the stepps, and degrees of sin, from thought to finall impenitencie. ([S.l. : s.n., 1655]), by Thomas Jenner and Jacob van Langeren (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A christall glasse of christian reformation wherein the godly maye beholde the coloured abuses vsed in this our present tyme. Collected by Stephen Bateman Minister. (Imprinted at London : By Iohn day dwelling ouer Aldersgate. Cum gratia et priuilegio Regia Maiestatis per decennium, 1569), by Stephen Batman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Minerua Britanna or A garden of heroical deuises furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures, newly devised, moralized, and published, by Henry Peacham, Mr. of Artes. (London : Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight, [1612]), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Hieroglyphikes of the life of man. (London : Printed by I[ohn] D[awson] for Francis. Eglesfeild. and are to be sold at the signe of the Marigold, in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1639), by Francis Quarles, William Marshall, and William Simpson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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 (Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius, M.D.LXXXVI. [1586]), by Geffrey Whitney (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Emblems, divine and moral (Printed at the Chiswick Press, by C. Whittingham ;, 1818), by Francis Quarles, Robert Jennings, Charles Whittingham, and Chiswick Press (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French, intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe. (Printed for T. Hodgson, in George's-Court, St. John's-Lane, Clerkenwell, 1789), by Hans Holbein, Jean de Vauzelles, Gilles Corrozet, Georg Aemilius, John Sidney Hawkins, Hans Lützelburger, and John Bewick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The considerations of Drexelius upon eternity (Printed for J. Walthoe, J. Nicholson, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, and B. Cowse, 1716), by Jeremias Drexel and Ralph Winterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue raisonné of the pictures belonging to the Marquis of Stafford, in the gallery of Cleveland house. : With illustrative anecdotes...accounts of...characteristic merits of the principal paintings (Longman, Hurst..., 1808), by SUTHERLAND (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christians zodiake (Printed for William Willson, 1647), by Jeremias Drexel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pia desideria: or, Divine addresses, : in three books. Illustrated with XLVII. copper-plates. (Printed for Henry Bonwicke ..., 1686), by Herman Hugo, Edmund Arwaker, and Harold Jantz Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country rhymes for children. (E. Stock, 1890), by John Bunyan and John Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ancient and accepted Scottish rite; illustrations of the emblems of the thirty-three degrees (Menzies;, 1875), by J. T. Loth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth : containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life : together with explanations and proverbs, in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and translated into English : the whole curiously engrav'd on 62 copper plates. (Sold by I. Cole engraver, at the Crown in great Kirby Street Hatton Garden, 1750), by James Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mirrour of maiestie: or, The badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded. (London : Printed by William Iones, dwelling in Red-crosse-streete, 1618), by fl. 1618 H. G. and Henry Goodyere (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A rot amongst the bishops,: or, A terrible tempest in the Sea of Canterbury, set forth in lively emblems to please the judicious reader: / by Tho: Stirry. (London : printed by R.O. & G.D., MDCXLI. [1641]), by Thomas Stirry (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Emblems, divine and moral (Printed [by Bradbury and Evans] for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, 1845), by Francis Quarles, Thomas Tegg, and Samuel Weller Singer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heart of itself gone away from God, brought back again to Him (Printed [by Bradbury and Evans] for Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside, 1845), by Christopher Harvey, Thomas Tegg, Francis Quarles, and Benedictus van Haeften (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emblems, divine and moral (Printed at the Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham, 1812), by Francis Quarles (page images at HathiTrust)

• The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus (Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at the Angell in Ivie Lane, 1648), by Henry Estienne, Richard Royston, William Marshall, and Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divine addresses (Printed by J[ohn] L[eake] for Henry Bonwicke, at the Red-Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1690), by Herman Hugo, Henry Bonwicke, John Leake, John Sturt, and Edmund Arwaker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblems (Printed for J. Williams at the Crowne in St. Pauls Churchyard & sould by Wm Grantham at ye Crown and Pearl ouer a gt. Exeter Change in ye Strand, 1684), by Francis Quarles and William Grantham (page images at HathiTrust)

• The school of the heart, or, The heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him : in forty-seven emblems (Printed for Alexr. Hogg, 1778), by Christopher Harvey, Benedictus van Haeften, and Francis Quarles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emblems, divine and moral : together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man (Printed for D. Midwinter , A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, S. Ballard, J. Batley, and J. Wood, S. Birt, A. Ward, and J. Clarke in Duck Lane, 1736), by Francis Quarles (page images at HathiTrust)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: an exposition of their similarities of throught and expression, preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A.D. 1616, by Henry Green (Gutenberg ebook)

• Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine : for the improvement and pastime of youth : displaying the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists, the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of a young nobleman. (Printed by J. Chapman for E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1793), by John Huddlestone Wynne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth : containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life : together with explanations and proverbs, in French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin, alluding to them, and translated into English : the whole curiously engrav'd on 62 copper plates. (Sold by I. Cole engraver, at the Crown in great Kirby Street Hatton Garden, 1750), by James Cole (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minne-beelden verandert in sinne-beelden (Bij Pieter van Waesberge boecvercooper, 1627), by Jacob Cats, Pieter van Waesberge, Jacob Matham, Jan Gerrits Swelinck, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, and Josuah Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emblemata moralia et bellica (Per Iacobum ab Heyden, Iconographum, 1615), by Jacobus à Bruck, Janus Gruterus, Matthaeus Merian, Jacob van der Heyden, and Francis Bacon Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minne-beelden verandert in sinne-beelden (Bij Pieter van Waesberge boecvercooper, 1627), by Jacob Cats, Pieter van Waesberge, Jacob Matham, Jan Gerrits Swelinck, Adriaen Pietersz. van de Venne, and Josuah Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri Baardt Deugden-spoor; in de on-deughden des werelts aff-gebeeldt (By Steffen Geerts, 1645), by Petrus Baardt and Johann Flittner (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)
• Hieroglyphikes of the life of man. Fra: Quarles (London : Printed by M. Flesher, for Iohn Marriot, 1638), by Francis Quarles and William Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Eeuwige vaderland en deszelfs vreugde (By de Wed. P. Arentz, en K. vander Sys, 1714), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christiano Hoburghs levendige herts-theologie (By Joannes Boekholt, boekverkooper, in de Gaper-steegh, by de Beurs, 1686), by Christian Hohburg and Johannes Boekholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stichtelyke rymen op verscheiden stoffen : waar van ontrent de helft nooit voor-deesen gedrukt zijn : hier in order gestelt in twee deelen (Gedrukt voor den autheur, ter drukkerye van Jacobus van Hardenberg, boekverkooper, 1700), by Jan Huygen and Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)
• De werken en vergelding der barmhertigheid, en onbarmhertigheid (Te Amsteldam : By Gerrit de Groot en Zoon, 1767., 1767), by Adriaan Spinniker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zedelyke en Stichtelyke Gezangen (Te Amsteldam : By Gerrit de Groot en Zoon, 1767., 1767), by Jan Luiken (page images at HathiTrust)

• Geistliche Emblemata oder Sinn-Bilder aus den Sonntags-Evangelien vom I. Advent biss auff Trinitatis. (Druckts David-Fridrich Rhete, 1675), by Sebald Meinhard and David Friedrich Rhete (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des Hocherleuchteten Sel. Johann Arndts, General-Superintendentens des Fürstenthums Lüneburg, Fünff geistreiche Bücher, vom wahren Christenthum ... : Welchen noch beygefüget drey andere kleine Bücher welchen zu des sel. Joahnn Arndts wahren Christenthum gehörig ... (Verlegts Johann Samuel Heinsius, 1740), by Johann Arndt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ihren Gott liebende Seele, vorgestellt in den Sinnbildern des Hermanni Hugonis über seine Pia desideria, und des Ottonis Vaenii, über die Liebe Gottes, mit neuen Kupffern und Versen, welche zielen auf das innere Christenthum, aus dem Frantzösischen ins Teutsche übersetzt. (Verlegt von Emerich Felix Bader, 1743), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, Emerich Felix Bader, Otto van Veen, and Herman Hugo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblematum sacrorum quorum consideratio accurata ad fidei exercitium et excitandam pietatem plurimum facere potest (Beÿ Simon Halbmeÿern gedruckt, zufinden beij Balthasaris Caijmoxen ..., 1625), by Johann Saubert, Balthasar Caimox, Simon Halbmaier, Peter Isselburg, and Michael Herr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neu poetisch Hoffnungs-Gärtlein : das ist: ccc. und xxx. Sinnbilder von der Hoffnung : so zum theils ausz der Heiligen Schrifft, zum theils ausz allerhand alten Kirchenvättern Geschichtschreibern Poeten Naturkündigern Vernunfft= und Zucht= Lehrern gezogen. Und mit Lateinisch= und Teutschen Versen erkläret werden (Getruckt bey Gregorio Kerner, 1653), by Johann Ebermeier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Englische Sing-schule (Bey Daniel Bartholomäi, 1717), by Johann Dietrich Herrichen and Jacob Andreas Fridrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrvm vitae humanae (Excussum typis Abrahami Fabri, Mediomatricorum Typographi :, 1596), by Jean Jacques Boissard, Theodor de Bry, and Abraham Faber (page images at HathiTrust)

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