Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers

Photo-Lith Plates.

PLATE.	SUBJECT.	SOURCE.	PAGE.
I.	Dedication Plate	Alciat’s Emb. Ed. 1661	1
Ia.	Tableau of Human Life,—Cebes, B.C. 330.	De Hooghe, 1670	13
Ib.	Tableau of Human Life,—Cebes, B.C. 330.	Old Print	68
II.	Christ’s Adoption of the Human Soul	Otho Vænius, Divini Amoris Emb. 1615	32
III.	Creation	Symeoni’s Ovid, Ed. 1559, p. 13	35
IV.	Title-page,—Speculum Humanæ Salvationis.	A MS. of the 1st Edition, 1440	44
V.	Leaf 31,—Speculum Humana Salvationis.	A MS. of the 1st Edition, 1440	44
VI.	A page from the Biblia Pauperum.	Noel Humphreys, p. 40, Pl. 2	46
VII.	Historia S. Joan. per Figuras,—Corser Collection.	Tracing from the Block-book	49
VIII.	Historia S. Joan. per Figuras,—Corser Collection.	Tracing from the Block-book	49
IX.	Title-page of Seb. Brandt’s Fool-freighted Ship	Locher’s Stultifera Navis, Ed. 1497	57
X.	Title-page of Van der Veen’s Emblems.	Adams Appel, Ed. 1642	132
XI.	Fall of Satan	Boissard’s Theat. Vit. Hum. 1596 Ed.	133
XII.	Occasion seized	David’s Occasio arr. &c. Ed. 1605	265
XIII.	The Zodiac	Brucioli, Della Sphera, Ed. 1543	353
XIV.	Life as a Theatre	Boissard’s Theat. Vit. Hum. Ed. 1596.	405
XV.	Seven Ages of Life,—an early Block-Print, British Museum.	Archæologia, vol. xxxv. 1853, p. 167.	407
XVI.	Providence making Rich and making Poor.	Coornhert, Ed. 1585	489
XVII.	Time flying	Otho Vænius, Emblemata, Ed. 1612.	491

SHAKESPEARE

AND THE

EMBLEM-WRITERS OF HIS AGE.