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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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Brunnen des Weisheit


Monte Raphaim


Glaser


Helmont - Artzney-Kunst

Hermaphroditisches


Hoffmann


Sonnenglanz


Riches inventions


Princes fortunes


Hercules Medicus


Agricola


Kirsten


Jungken


Koffsky


Keil - Medicinische


Keil - Philosophische


Kiessling, 1741


Kiessling, 1752