Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853

and Queries, Number 185, May
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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
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{469} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 185.] Saturday, May 14, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition
5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page English Books of Emblems, by the Rev. Thomas
Corser 469 Author of Tract on "Advantages of the East India Trade,
1720, 8vo.," by James Crossley 471 "Ake" and "Ache," by Thomas
Keightley 472 Localities mentioned in Anglo-Saxon Charters, by B.
Williams 473 Inedited Letter 473 A Shaksperian Book 474 MINOR
NOTES:--Shakspeare's Monument--Archbishop Leighton and Pope:
Curious Coincidence Of Thought and Expression--Grant of
Slaves--Sealing-wax 475
QUERIES:-- Walmer Castle, by C. Waymor 475 Scotchmen in Poland,
by Peter Cunningham 475 Bishop Juxon and Walton's Polyglott Bible
476 MINOR QUERIES:--Was Andrew Marvell
poisoned?--Anonymous Pamphlet by Dr. Wallis--Mrs. Cobb's
Diary--Compass Flower--Nuns of the Hotel Dieu-- Purlieu--Jennings
Family--Latimer's Brothers-in- Law--Autobiographical
Sketch--Schonbornerus--Symbol of Globe and Cross--Booth
Family--Ennui--Bankruptcy Records--Golden Bees--The Grindstone
Oak--Hogarth--Adamsons of Perth--Cursitor Barons of the
Exchequer--Syriac Scriptures 476

REPLIES:-- Psalmanazar, by Rev. Dr. Maitland 479 Consecrated
Roses, &c., by William J. Thoms 480 Campbell's Imitations 481 "The
Hanover Rat" 481 Font Inscriptions 482 Irish Rhymes: English
Provincialisms: Lowland Scotch 483 Pictures by Hogarth 484
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Washing Collodion
Process--Colouring Collodion Pictures--Wanted, a simple Test for a
good Lens--Photographic Tent: Restoration of Faded Negatives 484
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Gibbon's Library--Robert
Drury--Grub Street Journal--Wives of Ecclesiastics--Blanco
White--Captain Ayloff--General Monk and the University of
Cambridge--The Ribston Pippin--Cross and Pile--Ellis
Walker--Blackguard-- Talleyrand--Lord King and Sclater--"Beware the
Cat"--"Bis dat qui cito dat"--High Spirits a Presage of Evil--Colonel
Thomas Walcott--Wood of the Cross: Mistletoe--Irish Office for
Prisoners--Andries de Græff: Portraits at Brickwall House--"Qui facit
per alium, facit per se"--Christian Names--Lamech's
War-song--Traitor's Ford 485
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 489 Books and Odd
Volumes wanted 490 Notices to Correspondents 490 Advertisements
490
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Notes.
ENGLISH BOOKS OF EMBLEMS.
It is a remarkable circumstance that whilst the emblems of Alciatus
Vent through almost innumerable editions, and were translated into
most of the continental languages, no version of these Emblems should
ever have been printed in this country, although we believe that MS.
translations of them are in existence. It is remarkable also that more
than half century should have elapsed after their appearance, before any
English publication on this subject should have been committed to the
press. Our English authors of Books of Emblems were not only late in
their appearance, but are few in number, and in their embellishments
not very original, the plates being for the most part mere copies of

those already published abroad by Herman Hugo, Rollenhagius, and
others. The notices of the English writers on this entertaining subject
are also but meagre and imperfect, and restricted to a very few works;
both Dibdin, in his slight and rapid sketch on Books of Emblems in the
Bibliogr. Decam., vol. i. p. 254., and the writer in the Retrosp. Rev., vol.
ix. p. 123., having confined their remarks to some one or two of the
leading writers only, Arwaker, Peacham, Quarles, Whitney, and Wither.
With the exception of an occasional article in the Bibl. Ang. Poet., Cens.
Liter. Restituta, and similar bibliographical volumes, we are not aware
that any other notice has been taken of this particular branch of our
literature[1], nor does there exist, {470} that we know of, any complete,
separate, and distinct catalogue of such works.
Being anxious, therefore, to obtain a correct account of what may be
termed the English Series of Books of Emblems, I inclose a list of all
those in my own possession, and of the titles of such others as I have
been able to collect; and I shall be glad if any of your readers can make
any additions to the series, confining them at the same time strictly to
Books of Emblems, and not admitting fables, heraldic works, or older
publications