[go: up one dir, main page]
More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/Jump to content

emblem book

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
A page of an emblem book by George Wither (1635)

Alternative forms

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

emblem book (plural emblem books)

  1. A book, of a kind popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe, containing allegorical illustrations with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems.

Translations

[edit]
book containing allegorical illustrations with accompanying explanatory text

Further reading

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=emblem_book&oldid=70925161"