The rich Emblem Collection at Keir furnishes the first edition of each of Doni’s three Emblem-works, in 4to, printed by Antonio Francesco Marcolini at Venice in 1552–53; they are: 1. “I MONDI,”—_i.e._, _The Worlds, celestial, terrestrial, and infernal_,—2 parts in 1, with woodcuts. 2. “I MARMI,”—_The Marbles_,—4 parts in 1, a collection of pleasant little tales and interesting notices, with woodcuts by the printer; who also, according to Bryan, was an engraver of “considerable merit.” 3. “LA MORAL FILOSOFIA,”—_Moral Philosophy drawn from the ancient Writers_,—2 parts in 1, with woodcuts. In it are abundant extracts from the ancient fabulists, as Lokman and Bidpai, and a variety of little narrative tales and allegories. Of an English translation, two editions appeared in London in 1570 and 1601, during Shakespeare’s lifetime; namely, “~The Morall Philosophie~ of Doni, englished out of italien by sir Th. North,”[56] 4to, with engravings on wood. Under the two titles of “PICTA POESIS,” and “LIMAGINATION POETIQUE,” Bartholomew Aneau, or Anulus, published his “exquisite little gem,” as Mr. Atkinson, a former owner of the copy which is now before me, describes the work. It appeared at Lyons in 1552, and contains 106 emblems, the stanzas to which, in the Latin edition, are occasionally in Greek, but in the French edition, “vers François des Latins et Grecz, par l’auteur mesme d’iceux.” Achille Bocchi, a celebrated Italian scholar, the founder, in 1546, of the Academy of Bologna, Virgil Solis, of Nuremberg, an artist of considerable repute, Pierre Cousteau, or Costalius, of Lyons, and Paolo Giovio, an accomplished writer, Bishop of Nocera, give name to four of the Emblem-books which were issued in the year 1555. That of Bocchius is entitled “SYMBOLICARVM QVAESTIONVM, LIBRI QVINQVE,” Bononiæ, 1555, 4to; and numbers up 146, or, more correctly, 150 emblems in 340 pages: the devices are the work of Giulio Bonasone, from copper-plates of great excellence. In 1556, _Bononiæ_ Sambigucius put forth _In Hermathenam Bocchiam Interpretatio_, which is simply a comment on the 102nd emblem of Bocchius. Virgil Solis published in 4to, at Nuremberg, the same year, “LIBELLUS Sartorum, seu Signorum publicorum,”—_A little Book of Cobblers, or of public Signs_. Cousteau’s “PEGMA,”[57] which some say appeared first in 1552, is, as the name denotes, a _Structure_ of emblems, ninety-five in number, with _philosophical narratives_,—each page being surrounded by a pretty border. And Giovio’s “DIALOGO dell’ Imprese Militari et Amore,”—_Dialogue of Emblems of War and of Love_; or, as it is sometimes named, “RAGIONAMENTO, _Discourse concerning the words and devices of arms and of love, which are commonly named Emblems_,”—is probably the first regular treatise on the subject which had yet appeared, and which attained high popularity.