Mrs. Pott's Emblem Plates Found in the British Library
Plate XXVII.
Comments on Plate XXVII.
1. The Way of Bliss Elias Ashmole. 1658.
2. The Doctrine of Original Sin Ashinole. 1658.
3. From Paper and Paper Making Richard Herring, 3d edition. 1863. This is reprinted from Ure's Diction ary of Arts and Manufactures, with illustrations and Additions. As is usual in all books professing to publish any account of these matters, the illustration is without any date or description as to its meaning, or the book from which it was taken.
4. Sir Robert Howard's Four New Plays. 1604.
5. Shakespeare. 1664. G. Sir Kenelm Digby's Powder of Sympathy. 1009. One of several patterns. This book is an allegory or parable of the Rosicrucian sort.
7. Sir Kenelm Digby's Treatise of Bodies. 1669. Several patterns.
8. Sir Kenelm Digby's Treatise of Souls. 1009. Several patterns.
9. Traced on a piece hi the collection of English papermarks at the Bodleian Library. On the paper is written: Geneva Bible, 1561. But the Geneva Bible of that plate (which is the date of Francis Bacon's birth) has not this paper-mark, and a pot of this size (nearly 5 inches) is not found till nearly one hundred years later. The figures reversed 1651 would be about the date.
10. On the same sheet as No. 9. Here the pot is not traced, but on the paper is written in the same hand of a well-known Professor: “From Bacon's Works,” with the date added, 1563-4. In the works of Thomas Bacon, vol. i., or Thomas Beacon, vol. ii., there is no pot like this.
11. GR. From Sir Kenelm Digby's Of the Soul. 1669.
12/13. Cowley's Works. 1669.