Andrea Alciati and his books of emblems : a biographical and bibliographical study
Henry Green's 1877 biographical and bibliographical study of the Milanese jurist Andrea Alciati, published in London by Trübner for antiquarians and emblem-book scholars. Plates reproduce sixteenth-century engraved and woodcut portraits of Alciati and his contemporaries, framed in strapwork cartouches and inscribed medallions, alongside historiated initials with heads set in architectural openings and Latin mottoes below.
