Colophon: "Typis Hieronymi Verdussen." Half-title (A1r): "Emblemata Horatiana." P. 48 and 152 misnumbered as 84 and 52, respectively Signatures: A-2D Last leaf is blank Engraved title vignette (portrait) of Horace; printed marginal notes; [103] engraved emblems Verses accompanying emblems printed opposite of engravings McGeary & Nash. Emblem books at the University of Illinois Baldwin 1645: Lacking leaves I2, I3, Z4, 2C2, and 2C3 Baldwin 1645: Bound in calf; gilt, blind-tooled and blind-stamped
...spine; blind-tooled outer edges; fragments of a gold-stamped calf label on the spine; marbled edges Baldwin 1645: Circular, armorial bookplate, with motto "Cruciata cruce juguntur," on the front paste-down: T.M. Bruce Gardyne, Middleton; illustrated bookplate, with motto "Locus dacis" on the recto of the first front fly-leaf: Arthur C. Newsum; armorial bookplate, with motto "Periissem nisi periissem," on the A1v: Sr. John Anstruther of that ilk Baronet Emblems 71: Provenance: "Jo[ann]is Michaelis Schärer, dicti Hauser, Marchico-Badensis sum, 1635" inscribed in ink on title-page
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