Speaking Pictures: English Emblem Books and Renaissance Culture (Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library)

by M . Bath (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $89.36

  An introduction to the major emblem books of the 16th and 17th centuries, and to the contexts in which they flourished. Five chapters are devoted to critical readings of particular emblem books, and the other four are mainly contextual, and Bath has concentrated on accessible texts.