The “~Ehrenpforte~,” or _Triumphal Arch_, about 1515, and the “~Triumphwagen~,” or _Triumphal Car_, A.D. 1522, both in honour of Maximilian I., are among the noblest of Durer’s engravings; but the _Biographie Universelle_, t. 33, p. 582, attributes the engravings in the “~Tewrdannckh~” to Hans Shaeufflein the younger, who was born at Nuremberg about 1487; and with this agrees Stanley’s _Dict. of Engravers_, ed. 1849, p. 705. There are other works by Durer which, it may be, should be ranked among the Emblematical, as _Apocalypsis cum Figuris_, Nuremberg, 1498; and _Passio Domini nostri Jesu_, 1509 and 1511. It is, however, now generally agreed that Durer designed, but did not engrave, on wood. See Stanley, p. 224. Footnote 48: Belonging to one of the earlier editions, or else as an Imagination of the Tablet itself, is a wonderfully curious woodcut, in folio, of which our Plate 1. _b_ is a smaller fac-simile. Footnote 49: The title is rather conjectured than ascertained, for owing, as it is said, to Alciat’s dissatisfaction with the work, or from some other cause, he destroyed what copies he could, and not one is now of a certainty known to exist. For solving the doubt, the Editor of the Holbein Society of Manchester has just issued a note of inquiry to the chief libraries of Europe, _Enquête pour découvrir la première Edition des Emblêmes d’André Alciat, illustre Jurisconsulte Italien_. Milan, A.D. 1522. Footnote 50: A copy was in the possession of the Rev. Thos. Corser, and has passed through the hands of Dr. Dibdin and Sir Francis Freeling; also another copy is at Keir, Sir William Stirling Maxwell’s; both in admirable condition. Footnote 51: CLARISSIMI VIRI D. ANDREÆ AL_ciati Emblematum libellus, uigilanter recognitus, et iã recens per Wolphgangum Hungerum Bauarum, rhythmis Germanicis uersus._ PARISIIS, _apud Christianum Wechelum, &c., Anno_ M.D.XLII. Footnote 52: “OMNIA ANDREÆ ALCIATI V. C. EMBLEMATA. Adiectis commentariis, &c. Per Clavdivm Minoim Diuionesem. ANTVERPIÆ, Ex officina Christophori Plantini, Architypographi Regij, M.D.LXXIII.;” also, “Editio tertia multo locupletior,” M.D.LXXXI. Footnote 53: “Emblemata v. Cl. Andreæ Alciati—_notulis extemporarijs Laurentij Pignorij Patauini. Patauij, apud Pet. Paulum Tozzium_, M.DCXIIX,” sm. 8vo. Footnote 54: The Holbein Society of Manchester have just completed, May, 1869, a Photo-lithographic Reprint of the whole work, with an English Translation, Notes, &c., by the Editor, Henry Green, M.A. Footnote 55: _La tres admirable, &c., entrée du Prince Philipe d’Espaignes—en la ville d’Anvers, anno 1549._ 4to, Anvers, 1550. Footnote 56: North’s translation of Plutarch’s _Lives_, we may remark, was the great treasury to which Shakespeare often applied in some of his Historical Dramas; and we may assume that other productions from the same pen would not be unknown to him. Footnote 57: