BRY, Theodor de (1561-1623). Emblemata nobilitati et wlgo scitu digna Stam und Wappenbuchlein Frankfurt: Dietrich de Bry, 1593.
BRY, Theodor de (1561-1623). Emblemata nobilitati et wlgo scitu digna Stam und Wappenbuchlein Frankfurt: Dietrich de Bry, 1593. 4 o (181 x 139 mm). Etched title by T. de Bry, 77 etched plates consisting of engraved borders (24 surrounding emblematic engravings, 49 with armorial engravings with the shield left blank, and 4 left blank). (Title trimmed closely, some light staining, a few old repairs.) 18th-century vellum (recased); acquired in 1970. FIRST EDITION of the de Brys' first emblem book, in which the emblems are used as ornaments for Alba amicorum. The de Bry emblem books are the most famous representatives of this form of emblematic printed Stamm- und Wappenbücher, fashionable in Germany in the second half of the 16th century. First published in 1592 and reprinted in 1593, only a handful of copies are known. The contents of recorded copies of the present edition seems to vary: according to Praz two have 94 plates (copies in Bonn and Stuttgart), all others contain a varying number of plates: Thompson-Yates 55 and Huth-Bright 90. Landwehr, German 153; Praz, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (1964), pp. 47-50 and 289. Fact and Fantasy 46.
BRY, Theodor de (1561-1623). Emblemata nobilitati et wlgo scitu digna Stam und Wappenbuchlein Frankfurt: Dietrich de Bry, 1593.
BRY, Theodor de (1561-1623). Emblemata nobilitati et wlgo scitu digna Stam und Wappenbuchlein Frankfurt: Dietrich de Bry, 1593. 4 o (181 x 139 mm). Etched title by T. de Bry, 77 etched plates consisting of engraved borders (24 surrounding emblematic engravings, 49 with armorial engravings with the shield left blank, and 4 left blank). (Title trimmed closely, some light staining, a few old repairs.) 18th-century vellum (recased); acquired in 1970. FIRST EDITION of the de Brys' first emblem book, in which the emblems are used as ornaments for Alba amicorum. The de Bry emblem books are the most famous representatives of this form of emblematic printed Stamm- und Wappenbücher, fashionable in Germany in the second half of the 16th century. First published in 1592 and reprinted in 1593, only a handful of copies are known. The contents of recorded copies of the present edition seems to vary: according to Praz two have 94 plates (copies in Bonn and Stuttgart), all others contain a varying number of plates: Thompson-Yates 55 and Huth-Bright 90. Landwehr, German 153; Praz, Studies in Seventeenth-Century Imagery (1964), pp. 47-50 and 289. Fact and Fantasy 46.
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