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.

Date:: 1883

Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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