Iconology
Full title: Iconology, or, Emblematic figures explained in original essays on moral and instructive subjects
The Dial's edition: London, 1830
An illustrated handbook to the emblem tradition: it presents allegorical figures and personifications (virtues, vices, passions, places, abstract ideas, etc.) and explains their symbolic 'attributes' in short, accessible moral and instructive essays, supported by seventy-two engraved plates drawn from earlier designs.
