The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus
A 1648 London handbook on inventing devices, emblems, mottoes and imprese, translated by Thomas Blount from Henry Estienne's French treatise and printed for Richard Royston for courtiers, heralds and writers. Engraved plates show paired coin faces in ruled circles: laureate Roman emperor profiles opposite standing or seated personifications, with lettered legends, SC and SPQR marks, and numbered captions.
