Monograms — Livre nouveau et utile
Monograms — Livre nouveau et utile
French
A Amsterdam : [s.n.], 1690
Emblem on plate 15 engraved upside down.
Some monograms copied from Nicolas Verien’s Livre curieux et utile (Paris, 1685).
First leaf is engraved title. Plates 2-29 include emblems as well as foliated monograms, plate 100 consists entirely of 15 additional emblems. The 4 letterpress pages that follow plate 29 provide brief explanations of all emblems, with mottoes, and an index to the first series of monograms.
100 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)