Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 by Various
page 23 of 66 (34%)
page 23 of 66 (34%)
|
_A Lexicon of Types._--Can any of your readers inform me of the existence of a collection of emblems or types? I do not mean allegorical pictures, but isolated symbols, alphabetically arranged or otherwise. Types are constantly to be met with upon monuments, coins, and ancient title-pages, but so mixed with other matters as to render the finding a desired symbol, unless very familiar, a work of great difficulty. Could there be a systematic arrangement of all those known, with their definitions, it would be a very valuable work of reference,--a work in which one might pounce upon all the sacred symbols, classic types, signs, heraldic zoology, conventional botany, monograms, and the like abstract art. LUKE LIMNER. _Montaigne, Select Essays of._-- "Essays selected from Montaigne, with a Sketch of the Life of the Author. London. For P. Cadell, &c. 1800." This volume is dedicated to the Rev. William Coxe, rector of Bemerton. The life of Montaigne is dated the 28th of March, 1800, and signed _Honoria_. At the end of the book is this advertisement:-- "Lately published by the same Author 'The Female Mentor.' 2d edit., in 2 vols. 12mo." |
|