Emblems -- Early works to 1800
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A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: Francis Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at PSU)- Atalanta Fugiens, hoc est Emblemata Nova de Secretis Naturae Chymica (in Latin; Oppenheim, Germany: Ex Typ. H. Galleri, sumptibus J. Theodori de Bry, 1618), by Michael Maier
- The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are Added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and Others (London: William Kearney, 1591), by Claude Paradin (page images at PSU)
- The Book of Emblems (in Latin and English), by Andrea Alciati (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
- Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
- Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage; London: Printed by T. R. for L. Lloyd, 1661), contrib. by Samuel Pordage and John Pordage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
- Atalanta Fugiens (English translation from MS Sloane 3645 in the British library), by Michael Maier
- A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine (London, 1635), by George Wither (page images at PSU)
- The Mirrour of Maiestie, or The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned (1870; includes facsimile of 1618 publication), by Henry Goodyere, ed. by Henry Green and James Croston (page images at PSU)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Emblems- A Century of Emblems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by George Spencer Cautley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Emblems, Divine and Moral, Together With Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man, by Francis Quarles (page images at PSU)
- Emblems of Love, in Four Languages, Dedicated to the Ladys (1680s), by Philip Ayres (page images at PSU)
- Nuttelyck Huys-Boeck (second edition, in Dutch; Leiden: H. van der Deyster, 1769), by Jacob Cats
- Pia Desideria, or, Divine Addresses, In Three Books (1678), by Herman Hugo, trans. by Edmund Arwaker (page images at PSU)
- 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)
- Emblemata Hispanica: An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Emblem Literature to the Year 1700 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Pedro F. Campa (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)
- Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
- A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: Francis Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at PSU)
- The Mirrour of Maiestie, or The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned (1870; includes facsimile of 1618 publication), by Henry Goodyere, ed. by Henry Green and James Croston (page images at PSU)
- A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The School of the Heart, or, The Heart of It Self Gone Away From God, Brought Back Again to Him, and Instructed by Him, in 47 Emblems (London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676), by Christopher Harvey (page images at PSU)
- 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)
- Les Emblèmes des Beys de Tunis: Étude sur les Signes de l'Autonomie Husseinite (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1913), by Henri Hugon, contrib. by G. Alapetite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Our Hypocritical New National Motto "In God We Trust": A Study of the Congressional Substitution for "E Pluribus Unum" and its Theological Implications (New York: Exposition Press, 1963), by Abbott Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)
- Papers Relative to the Regalia of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1829), by William Bell
- Heraldica Curiosa (in German; Nůrnberg: J. L. Buggel, 1698), by J. A. Rudolphi (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
- The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are Added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and Others (London: William Kearney, 1591), by Claude Paradin (page images at PSU)
- The Mirrour of Maiestie, or The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned (1870; includes facsimile of 1618 publication), by Henry Goodyere, ed. by Henry Green and James Croston (page images at PSU)
- Heraldica Curiosa (in German; Nůrnberg: J. L. Buggel, 1698), by J. A. Rudolphi (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Display of Heraldry (6th edition, with various added related works; London: Printed by T. W., 1724), by John Guillim, contrib. by George Mackenzie and John Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary and Commendable Qualities Concerning Minde or Bodie That May be Required in a Noble Gentleman (London: Printed for F. Constable, 1622), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Linajes Nobles de España: Catálogo de Todos los Apellidos y Escudos de Armas Que a Cada Uno Pertenecen (in Spanish; Madrid: En Casa del Autor, 1867), by Juan José Vilar Psayla
- The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
- The Whole Art of the Stage: Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, But Many Curious Observations About It, Which May Be of Great Use to the Authors, Actors, and Spectators of Plays, Together With Much Critical Learning About the Stage and Plays of the Antients (London: Printed for the author and sold by W. Cadman et al., 1684), by François-Hédelin Aubignac (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Select Works of Sri Sankaracharya (English translations only; 1921), by Śaṅkarācārya, trans. by S. Venkataramanan (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Analysis of Beauty: Written With a View of Fixing the Fluctuating Ideas of Taste (London: J. Reeves, 1753), by William Hogarth (page images at Wisconsin)
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757), by Edmund Burke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Indagación Filosófica Sobre el Orígen de Nuestras Ideas Acerca de lo Sublime y lo Bello (in Spanish; Alcalá: Oficina de la Real Universidad, 1807), by Edmund Burke, trans. by Juan de la Dehesa (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Essay on the Beautiful (From the Greek of Plotinus) (London: J. M. Watkins, 1917), by Plotinus, trans. by Thomas Taylor (Gutenberg text)
- Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Painting and Poetry, With Remarks Illustrative of Various Points in the History of Ancient Art (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1887), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, trans. by Ellen Frothingham
- A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, by Edmund Burke (HTML at Bartleby)
- Aristotle on the Art of Poetry (aka Poetics), by Aristotle, trans. by Ingram Bywater, contrib. by Gilbert Murray (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by S. H. Butcher (Gutenberg text)
- Poetics, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Hamilton Fyfe (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
- The Art of Poetry: An Epistle to the Pisos (in Latin and English), by Horace, ed. by George Colman (Gutenberg text)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by W. Rhys Roberts (HTML at Internet Classics)
- Rhetoric, by Aristotle, trans. by John Henry Freese (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
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