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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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Elsholtz 1674


David von der Becke 1674


Hercules Medicus 1675


Mentzel 1675


Burggrav 1678


Sternhals 1680


Rain 1680


Jungken 1681


Physica subterranea 1681


Bachimius 1682


Schütze 1682


Monte-Snyders 1684


Hoffmann 1685


Hoffmann 1685

Starkey 1687


Respour 1688