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Total number of records: 31

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	10
English Literature	7
Cookery Collection	1
Herbert Read Collection	1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
emblems	31
christian life	2
emblem books	2
kings and rulers	2
symbolism	2
alchemy	1
christian art and symbolism	1
christian saints in art	1
conduct of life	1
devices (heraldry)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Hugo, Herman (1588-1629)	4
Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)	4
Alciati, Andrea (1492-1550)	3
Mignault, Claude (1536-1606)	3
Bonomi, Giovanni Francesco (1626-1705)	2
Chapman, John	2
Chapman, John (1823-)	2
Hugo, Herman	2
Marshall, William	2
Marshall, William (1650-)	2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	4
From 1600	13
From 1700	3
From 1800	7
From 1900	4

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	4
Up to 1699	13
Up to 1799	3
Up to 1899	7
Up to 1999	4

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Saints and their emblems

Drake, Maurice (1875-1923); Drake, Wilfred (1879-1949)

1916

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Religious emblems : being a series of engravings on wood, executed by the first artists of that line, from designs drawn on the blocks themselves

Thurston, John (1774-1822); Thomas, Joseph; Branston, Allen Robert (1778-1827); Nesbit, Charlton (1775-1838); Clennell, Luke (1781-1840); Hole, Henry

1809

Wood-engravings cut by A.R. Branston, C. Nesbit, L. Clennell, and H. Hole.

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Shakespeare and the emblem writers : an exposition of their similarities of thought and expression. Preceded by a view of emblem-literature down to A. D. 1616

Green, Henry (1801-1873)

1870

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Pia desideria : lib. iii. ad Urbanum VIII

Hugo, Herman (1588-1629)

1659

Engraved title page. Colophon dated 1657.

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Tapisseries du Roi : ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons

Félibien, André sieur des Avaux et de Javercy (1619-1695); Le Brun, Charles (1619-1690); Le Clerc, Sébastien (1637-1714); Bailly, Jacques (1629-1679)

1670

Engraved by S. Le Clerc after designs by C. Le Brun; the devices from miniature paintings by J. Bailly.

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Francisci Sanctii Brocensis In inclyta Salmaticensi Academia Rhetoricæ, Graecæque linguæ professoris Comment. in And. Alciati Emblemata : nunc denuò multis in locis accuratè recognita, & quamplurimis figuris illustrata. Cum indice copiossissime

Sánchez de las Brozas, Francisco (1523-1601); Rouillé, Guillaume (1518?-1589)

1573

Title vignette: Publisher's device.

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Iani Iacobi Boissardi vesuntini Emblematum liber. Ipsa emblemata ab auctore delineata

Boissard, Jean Jacques (1528-1602); Bry, Theodore de (1528-1598)

1593

Engraved title-page. Signatures: A-P⁴ (B4 blank). Errata : verso of B3.

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Omnia Andreæ Alciati V.C. Emblemata : adiectis commentariis & scholiis, in quibus Emblematum fermè omnium aperta origine, mens auctoris explicatur, & obscura omnia, dubiáque illustrantur

Alciati, Andrea (1492-1550); Mignault, Claude (1536-1606)

1574

First published in 1531.

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Rime de gli Academici occulti : con le loro imprese et discorsi

Arnigio, Bartolomeo (1523-1577); Accademia degli occulti (Brescia, Italy)

1568

Engr. t.p. Each section of poems preceded by an emblem engr. by Bartolomeo da Brescia. The "imprese et discorsi" which accompany the emblems are by Bartolommeo Arnigio. Cf. Praz, M. Studies in sev...

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