The art of making devises: . treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, ænigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus. First written in French, by Henry Estienne, ... Translated into English, and embelished with divers brasse figures, by T.B. ... Whereunto is added, A catalogue of coronet-devises, both on the Kings and Parliaments side, in the late warres.
Henri Estienne, le Grand
Category
Books
Date
1650
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005831
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 87, [1]p.,[11] plates . ill. (metal cut) ; 4to. Running number: 1300. Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front endleaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Ellys]. Manuscript notes in seventeenth-century hands: on recto of frontispiece: [1] "0- [?]"; [2] "46"; on verso: "E6"; on verso of title page: "London"; on verso of final leaf: [1] "C/a4 Ex donis Jo [crossed through] Ex donis JE"; [2] "Do Ric: Beau=mont. May ye 30 1694.". Drawings of face and unfinished device. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled brown calf over boards. Gilt roll pattern along board edges. Five raised bands; gold tooled spine with gilt title tooled directly on to spine. Endbands. Pastedown with guard and endleaf at both ends. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne, le Grand Thomas Blount (1618 - 1679) , translator