THE COMELY FRONTISPIECE. The emblematic title-page in England, 1550-1660.
Pp. viii+248, 20 full page illustrations, 2 text figures, title within decorative border, index; med. 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges lightly worn and split; small surface tear bottom edge of lower free endpaper; Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1979. First edition. *'Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 - one of the richest periods in English culture - were embellished with an elaborate engraved title page. From among them Margery Corbett and Ronald Lightbown have selected twenty title-pages which represent all the difference branches of learning - theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine . . . not intended simply as ornaments but as visual epitomes in the emblematic mode of significant aspects of the book' [wrapper blurb]. Item #182807
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