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    The Comely Frontispiece: The Emblematic Title-Page in England 1550?1660

    The Comely Frontispiece by Corbett, Margery; Lightbown, R.W.;

    The Emblematic Title-Page in England 1550?1660

    Series: Routledge Revivals;

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    Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not mere ornaments but visual epitomes of significant aspects of the book.

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    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. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which represent the different branches of learning ? theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine ? and explains that these pages were not mere ornaments but visual epitomes in the emblematic mode of significant aspects of the book. They were designed by the author and explore the whole world of Renaissance emblematic imagery on which they drew. We see how famous figures used the engraved title-page to express the ideas they had in mind when their books were conceived and written ? ideas about the Church and society, philosophy and manners, poetry and drama, science and medicine ? so that it affords us an exceptional insight into what they themselves considered was important or attractive in their own creations.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. John Dee, General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation, 1577  2. Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, 1593  3. Richard Haydocke, A tracte containing the Artes of curious Paintinge Carvinge & Buildinge, 1598  4. John Huygen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages into the Easte and West Indies, 1598  5. The Holy Bible, Anno 1602. The Last Edition of the Bishop?s Bible  6. Guillaume de Salustre du Bartas, His Devine Weekes & Workes, 1605?6  7. King James Bible, The Authorised Version, 1611  8. George Chapman, The whole works of Homer; prince of poetts. In his Iliads, and Odysses, 1616  9. St John Chryostom, Opera Graecé, 1610?12  10. Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World, 1614  11. James I, Workes, 1616  12. Ben Jonson, The Workes of Beniamin Jonson, 1616  13. Michael Drayton, Poly-oblion, or a chorographical Description of Great Britain, 1612?22  14. Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman, 1622  15. Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles, 1624  16. Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, 1627  17. Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1632  18. John Bulwer, Chirologia, 1644  19. John Bulwer, Philocophvs: or, the Deafe and dumbe mans friend, 1648  20. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

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