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, ... and translated into English by Tho: Blount ...
Henri Estienne, sieur des Fossez
Category
Books
Date
1646
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3129127
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 68 p., [11] leaves of plates . ill.. . 8vo.. Bookseller's manuscript note regarding poor condition. Provenance: Nineteenth-century small armorial bookplate with motto, "Degeranti genus opprobium": Calke Abbey Library; also inscribed; Calke Abbey Library. Binding: Quarter seventeenth-century calf, with marbled paper over boards; spine damage.
Makers and roles
Henri Estienne, sieur des Fossez Thomas Blount (1618 - 1679)