Emblem Books

Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping Garment Dyed - Off White Short SleeveMade in USA - 100% USA Cotton While boys are entertained by nuts and youths by dice, so playing-cards fill up the time of lazy men. In the festive season we hammer out these emblems, made by the distinguished hand of craftsmen. Just as one affixes trimmings to clothes and badges to hats, so it behooves every one of us to write in silent marks. Though the supreme emperor may give to you, for you to own, precious coins and finest objects of the ancients, I myself shall give, one poet to another, paper gifts: take these, Konrad, the token of my love. – Preface by Andrea Alciato on his book of emblems, to Konrad Peutinger of Augsburg  EmblemataThe emblem can be considered one of the primary vehicles of cultural knowledge during the early modern period (ca. 1500-1750), capable of expressing highly complex ideas in compact and compelling forms. The purpose of the emblem is to indirectly convey m