Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown.

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Loves garland, or, Posies for rings, hand-kerchers, & gloves and such pretty tokens that lovers send their loves. A reprint. Whereunto is added a collection of posie mottoes ... entitled, Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes. To which is prefixed an introduction, in which some trite things are said concerning the efforts of the early alchemists to transmute the baser metals into gold ... / by James Roberts Brown. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Imprynted by C.W.H. Wyman, 1883.

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102 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 x 12 cm.

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Reprint, p. [41]-[63], with reproduction of original t.-p., ornaments, tailpiece, etc., of the edition having imprint: London, Printed by Andrew Clark, 1674
Ye garland of ye Sette of odd volumes contains: "Poesies" reprinted from "The card of courtship," London, Printed by J.C. for Humphrey Moseley, 1653, p. 66-80; Posie mottoes from rings in the possession of John Evans and Robert Day, p. 81-99
List of club's members: p. [101]-102.
Copy 1 Note: Presented to Sir Henry Wellcome by James Brown

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