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Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques : au nombre de plus de douze cent, avec leurs explications, accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnez simples, doubles & triples, d'une maniere nouvelle & fort curieuse pour tous les noms imaginable : avec les tenants, supports, & cimiers servans aux ornemens des armes ...

by: Verien, Nicolas

Publication date: 1696

Topics: Emblems, Monograms, Crests, Emblems -- Early works to 1800, Monograms -- Early works to 1800, Crests -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: A Paris : Chez Jean Jombert ...

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French

Engraved frontispiece port. of Verien signed by Gerard Edelinck after Jean Jouvenet. Engraved t.p. from 1st ed. of 1685 retained following letterpress t.p.; title: Livre curieux et utile pour les sçavans et artistes. Engraved dedication to Le Dauphin (from ed. of 1685), engraved titles for Livres 1-3

In Livre 1, each leaf bears 15 etched emblems on verso and letterpress description of preceding plate on recto. In Livre 2 additional emblems separate sections of monograms that begin with a given letter, with letterpress explanation given on p. 1-19 following

Plates II, IV, VI, VIII of Livre I are cancels, texts for LV and LVI reversed in printing. Plate 3 of Livre 2 printed upside down

Binding: modern suede, tooled in blind, title & date on spine. Edges red, top edge silvered (?)

Signature on t.p. verso of Ange Scozia

[2] leaves of plates, [4], LXII leaves, 19, [3] p., 153 [i.e. 154] p. of plates, [2] p., 17 p. of plates, [1], 28 p. : 20 cm. (8vo)

Engraved frontispiece port. of Verien signed by Gerard Edelinck after Jean Jouvenet. Engraved t.p. from 1st ed. of 1685 retained following letterpress t.p.; title: Livre curieux et utile pour les sçavans et artistes. Engraved dedication to Le Dauphin (from ed. of 1685), engraved titles for Livres 1-3

Notes

Irregular pagination. Many sections do not include page numbers. Numbering is determined by illustrations. Narrow margins. Gutter included to avoid cropping text. Light foxing.