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PEACHAM, Henry, the younger (1578-1644). Minerva Britanna, or a garden of heroical devises. Furnished and adorned with emblems and impresas of sundry natures. London: W. Dight, 1612.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (201 x 152mm). General title within woodcut border with a central device of a hand reaching from behind a curtain, holding a quill pen, woodcut arms of Henry, Prince of Wales on verso, second part with separate woodcut title, 204 emblems within wide borders, many decorative head- and tail-pieces, additional portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales tipped-in on endpaper. (Title browned, lightly browned throughout, light spotting.) 19th-century old-style brown morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, gilt edges (a little rubbed, scuff mark on rear cover, new endpapers). Provenance: old manuscript annotations (in margins of T3 and 2B4) – John Bellingham Inglis (bookplate) – William Curtis (bookplate) – S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. An elaborate and important English emblem book. One woodcut has been taken by some as evidence for the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy: no.33 depicts a hand in armour holding upright a spear, while the facing emblem is dedicated to Bacon. Peacham's address "To the reader" (A3-4) extolls the emblems of different countries and authors. STC 19511; Grolier Wither to Prior II, 657; Praz p. 447.
2 parts in one volume, 4° (201 x 152mm). General title within woodcut border with a central device of a hand reaching from behind a curtain, holding a quill pen, woodcut arms of Henry, Prince of Wales on verso, second part with separate woodcut title, 204 emblems within wide borders, many decorative head- and tail-pieces, additional portrait of Henry, Prince of Wales tipped-in on endpaper. (Title browned, lightly browned throughout, light spotting.) 19th-century old-style brown morocco, stamped in blind and gilt, gilt edges (a little rubbed, scuff mark on rear cover, new endpapers). Provenance: old manuscript annotations (in margins of T3 and 2B4) – John Bellingham Inglis (bookplate) – William Curtis (bookplate) – S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. An elaborate and important English emblem book. One woodcut has been taken by some as evidence for the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy: no.33 depicts a hand in armour holding upright a spear, while the facing emblem is dedicated to Bacon. Peacham's address "To the reader" (A3-4) extolls the emblems of different countries and authors. STC 19511; Grolier Wither to Prior II, 657; Praz p. 447.
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