. Andrea Alciati and his books of emblems : a biographical and bibliographical study . KS OF ANDREAALCIATI: A GENERAL VIEW OF THE EDITIONS AND THEIRWOOD-CUTS, AND OF THE NOTESAND COMMENTARIES. ES Emblemes ou entregectz de SeigneurAndre Alciat Gentilhome Mylannoys,The Emblems or castings of thought ofSignor Andrea Alciati, gentleman ofMilan, had, as we have seen in theMemoir of his Life, been widely scat-tered abroad in Europe previously evento his death ; and of most of the early editions, as those bySteyner of Augsburg, Wechel of Paris, and Roville andBonhomme of Lyons, we have already spoken
. Andrea Alciati and his books of emblems : a biographical and bibliographical study . KS OF ANDREAALCIATI: A GENERAL VIEW OF THE EDITIONS AND THEIRWOOD-CUTS, AND OF THE NOTESAND COMMENTARIES. ES Emblemes ou entregectz de SeigneurAndre Alciat Gentilhome Mylannoys,The Emblems or castings of thought ofSignor Andrea Alciati, gentleman ofMilan, had, as we have seen in theMemoir of his Life, been widely scat-tered abroad in Europe previously evento his death ; and of most of the early editions, as those bySteyner of Augsburg, Wechel of Paris, and Roville andBonhomme of Lyons, we have already spoken. These,however, comprise but a small portion, and a Bibliographyof them demands that notice be taken of the various otherclasses into which the 185 editions maybe arranged. In imitation of Wechels editions are those in small 8voby Jacobus Modernus of Lyons, in 1544 and 1545. JoUatsdesigns are very closely followed, but the cuts from themare by a different workman, furnishing no mark or mono-gram by which to ascertain who he was. Several editions of the Latin text in two books were. 8o Life of Andrea Alciati. issued from Lyons by Tornsesius and Gazeius, beginning in1547 ; and of the French version of Le Fevre in 1548, &c.,those bearing the name of Jean de Tournes. The designsfor the woodcuts are generally attributed to the Little Ber-nard. So testify Brunet and R. Weigel; but Francis Douce,in his copy in the Bodleian library, A 350, has written,the cuts are perhaps by Le petit Bernard or Cousin.^*They bear the strongest likeness to those in the editionsprinted by Marnef,— Cousins designs, but a different en-graver from that in Marnefs edition. On collating theWolfenbiittel copy of De Tournes edition of 1548, thelibrarian remarks, June 25th 1871 : Les planches sont sansbordures et manquent de monogrammes ou marques degraveur. This last observation, however, is not absolutely true ofthe edition of 1556 by Tornsesius and Gazeius, which con-tains Stockhamers notes and a new set o
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