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Emblematic imagery - 17th Century Frontispiece engravings
Many books, during the 17th and 18th centuries, adopted a frontispiece engraving opposite the letterpress title page. This could be tipped into the letterpress book after printing and was less expensive and time consuming than printing an engraving on the title page. Often these frontispieces symbolically summarised the contents of the book.
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Riches inventions 1600


Thesaurinella Olympica 1608


Princes fortunes 1610


Toyson d'Or 1613


Hellwig 1637


Agricola 1638


Kirsten 1648


Annibal Barlet 1651


Natur-Kündigung 1661


Oedipus chimicus 1664


Luigi de Conti 1 1664


Luigi de Conti 2 1664

Helvetius 1667


Hermetisches kleeblatt 1667


Geber, 1668


Physica subterranea 1669


Kerckring 1671


Charas, Viper 1672

Ercker, 1673