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<dl><dd>"Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le 25. Septembre 1685"--P. 28 (last p. of Livre 2)</dd>
<dd>Later published under title: Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, médailles et figures hieroglyphiques</dd>
<dd>Engraved port. of Verien; here unsigned, though in the ed. of 1696 it is signed by Gerard Edelinck after Jean Jouvenet. Main t.p., dedication to Le Dauphin, sectional titles for Livres 1-3 engraved</dd>
<dd>In Livre 1, each leaf bears 15 etched emblems on verso and letterpress description of preceding plate on recto (save leaves V [text only] and VI [emblems only]; texts for LIV and LVI reversed in printing). In Livre 2 additional emblems separate sections of monograms that begin with a given letter</dd>
<dd>Two leaves of errata follow leaf LXIII</dd>
<dd>Binding: modern marbled paper, backed in brown goatskin. Page edges in part retain red stain from a previous binding</dd>
<dd>Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S. Nineteenth-century bookplate for "Grollier et ses amis."</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Emblems; Monograms; Crests</div>
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<dl><dd>Verien, Nicolas</dd>
<dd>Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707</dd>
<dd>Jouvenet, Jean, 1644-1717</dd></dl></div>
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