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Minerua Britanna, or, A garden of heroical deuises, furnished, and adorned with emblemes and impresa's of sundry natures : newly devised, moralized, and published

Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · 1612 · London : Printed ... by Wa. Dight · 259 pictures

An English emblem book by Henry Peacham, printed in London in 1612 and addressed to Prince Henry and the court, pairing 262 devices with explanatory verse. Each woodcut sets a spare emblem scene inside a ruled panel framed by foliate scrollwork or interlaced strapwork borders, giving designers hatched skies and clouds, bare trees, rocks and tufted ground, and ready-made ornamental surrounds.

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