Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Title within ornamental border Dedication, prelim. p. [7] of facsimile, signed H.G. (assumed to be Sir Henry Goodyere) Facsimile includes 40 plates on [36] p. showing emblems chosen from H. Peacham's Minerva Britanna, 1612; Selectorum symbolorum heroicorum centuria, 1619; Le sententiose imprese et dialogo del Symeone, 1560; Pittoni, Imprese de diversi principi [etc.], 1566-1568; and Speculum heroicum ... Homeri, 1613 "Introduction: A brief review of English emblem-books previous to A.D. 1618, and of The mirror of majesty itself"--P. [65]-180 at end Preface by Green and Crostan, p. [v]-viii, discusses "the proper office of the Photographer as an artist in fac-simile reprints." Facsimile ed. dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Corser, vicar of Stand, Lancashire "Notice to subscribers" of Holbein Society publications and list of Holbein Society council members at front Includes bibliographical references and index