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Emblematic imagery - 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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Charas, Viper 1672

Acxtelmaier


Bernardus 1717


Johann Augurell


Siebmacher

Fictuld Azoth et Ignis


Fictuld Triumph-Bogen


Fictuld Probier-Stein


Sendivogius, 1718


Charas Pharmacopée


Geber, 1668


Starkey


Maldiny


Jungken, 1681


Jungken, 1702


Becher, 1664


Ubigerus


Philalethes Illustrata


Annibal Barlet