Printer's name from Wing CD

Added engraved title page (plate) bearing the title "Divine addresses" and signed: "Sturt sc.", who also engraved the illustrations. Cf. Lowndes

Title within double-rule

Contains 46 engraved emblems

Translation of: Pia desideria

In verse

Errata listed at foot of page [8] at beginning

With a final advertisement leaf

Signatures: A B-Q (Leaf A3 mis-signed B3)

Errors in pagination: pages 16, 98, 99, 102, 103, 106, 107, 110, 111, 209, 212, and 213 are misnumbered as 14, 82, 83, 86, 87, 90, 91, 94, 95, 109, 112, and 113, respectively

Inscription in ink on front free endpaper verso: "with Sturt's plates -- (scarce) ... Herman Hugo, author of Pia Desideria, was a learned Jesuit born at Brussels in 1588. It was first published in 1632, [?] & upniled[?] by Elzevir in 32mo. -- Hugo died in 1639. Charles borrowed his Emblems from this book & marred them in the borrowing ..."

Bound in re-backed full calf with the initials "D.H." gilt-tooled at center of front and rear boards

McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois

Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)

ESTC

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