A choice of emblemes, and other deuises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and moralized. And diuers newly deuised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment

Abstract

In verse. The second part has divisional title page; pagination and register are continuous. The last leaf is blank. Page 2*3r is in two states; line 18 ends (1) "and" or (2) "behalfe"; the latter is partly reimposed and reset. Quires O and P are in two impositions, each imposition with a woodcut not in the other; (1) p. 109 has "Fato non Fortuna", or (2) p. 119 has "Ex damno alterius". Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.