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<dl><dd>[16], 336, [8] pages : 18 cm (8vo)</dd>
<dd>Woodcut design attributed to Pierre Eskrich by Baudrier</dd>
<dd>Signatures: [italic a]⁸ A-X⁸ a⁴</dd>
<dd>Leaves K5 and V5 incorrectly signed as L5 and A5 respectively</dd>
<dd>Pages 44, 45, 99, 103, 136, 137, 140, 141 and 144 incorrectly numbered 42, 44, 993, 10, 135, 136, 139, 140, 143 respectively</dd>
<dd>Printer's device (Perseus holding Medusa's head, motto in Greek (life from labor)); title within ornamental woodcut border</dd>
<dd>Head- and tail-pieces</dd>
<dd>Each emblem accompanied by verse epigram printed in italics, followed by a philosophical narration printed in roman type</dd>
<dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Includes 95 woodcuts of emblems</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 1: From the library of de Cantriglier (1861), with signature</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 1: From the library of Marechal, Pretre, Chanoire honoraire, a Orgelet, with his bookplate</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 1: Part of the Karla Langedijk Collection, with bookplate</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 1: Contemporary marginalia throughout</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 2: From the library of Adolphe Toulouse, with his armorial bookplate</dd>
<dd>Rubenstein Library copy 1: Old leather binding, raised bands, red edges</dd>
<dd>former call number: D-6 12mo C869P</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Emblem books; Emblems; Didactic literature, Latin</div>
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Coustau, Pierre, active 1554, author</div>
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