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An argent lion rampant: coats of arms in 17th-c. books
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An argent lion rampant: coats of arms in 17th-c. books

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Goran Proot

In recent months, the Folger Shakespeare Library added a rare emblem book to its holdings, a thin quarto bound in pasteboards holding 24 unnumbered leaves . The emblem book presents itself as a “new year’s gift” containing 13 engravings: one coat…