Chronology based on Bath (1994).
Chronological list of English emblem books to 1900, excluding manuscripts. The place of publication is London, except where otherwise stated. Polygot editions of emblem books printed on the continent are not included.
1569 Jan van der Noot, A Theatre for Worldlings, Henry Bynneman.
1585 Samuel Daniel, The Worthy Tract of Paulus Jovius, Simon Waterson.
1586 Geffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes, Francis Raphelengius for Christopher Plantin, Leiden.
1591 P.S., The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin, William Kearney.
1592 Andrew Willet, Sacrorum Emblematum Centuria Una, John Legate, Cambridge.
1593 Thomas Combe, The Theater of Fine Devices, Richard Field (Second edition 1614).
1605 William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, G.E. for Simon Waterson. Further editions 1614, 1623, 1629, 1635, 1637, 1657, 1674.
1608 Henry Peacham, Minerva Britanna, Walter Dight.
1618 H.G., The mirror of Maiestie, William Jones.
1626 Thomas Jenner, The Soules Solace, Thomas Jenner.
1632 Jeremias Drexel, The Considerations of Drexelius upon Eternitie, Nicholas Alsop (Further editions 1636, 1658, 1661, 1672, 1694).
1633 Jeremias Drexel, The Christian Zodiac, John Coustourier, Rouen (Second edition 1647).
1633 Jeremias Drexel, Nicetas or the Triumph over Incontinencie, ?Rouen or ?Douai.
1633 Henry Hawkins, Partheneia Sacra, John Coustourier, Rouen.
1634 Henry Hawkins, The Devout Heart, John Coustourier, Rouen.
1635 Thomas Heywood, The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angells, Adam Islip.
l635 Francis Quarles, Emblemes, John Marriot. (Further editions 1635 (another edition), 1639, 1643, 1658, 1660, 1663, 1669, 1676 1683, 1684, 1696, and many later editions.)
1635 George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Robert Allot, John Grismond, Robert Milbourne, Richard Royston, H. Taunton.
1637 Thomas Heywood, Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma's, R. Hearne.
1638 Robert Farley, Lychnocausia sive moralia facum emblemata, Michael Sparke Jr.
1638 Robert Farley, Kalendarium Humanae Vitae, William Hope.
1638 Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man, M. Flesher for John Marriot. Reprinted together with Emblemes in all subsequent editions listed above.
1640 Jeremias Drexel, The School of Patience, Roger Daniel, Cambridge.
1642 Jeremias Drexel, The Forerunner of Eternitie, John Sweeting.
l646 Thomas Blount, The Art of Making Devices, W.E. and J.G. (Further editions 1650, 1655.)
1647 Jeremias Drexel, The Hive of Devotion, R. Best. (Further edition in 1676 entitled A Spiritual Repository.)
1647 Christopher Harvey, Schola Cordis, or The Heart of itself gone away from God. (Further editions 1664, 1674, 1676 entitled The School of the Heart.)
1648 Mildmay Fane, Otia Sacra, Richard Cotes.
l656 Thomas Jenner, The Path of Life, Thomas Jenner.
1656 Thomas Jenner, The Ages of Sin, Thomas Jenner.
1658 John Hall, Emblems with Elegant Figures, Roger Daniel.
1665 E.M., Ashrea, William Place.
1673 Emblems Divine, Moral, Natural and Historical, William Miller and Francis Haley.
1680 The Protestants Vade Mecum, Daniel Browne, Samuel Lee, Daniel Major.
1680 John Quarles, Self-Conflict. (Further edition 1684 entitled Triumphant Chastity.)
1683 Philip Ayres, Emblemata Amatoria, R. Bentley and S. Tidmarsh.
1684 R.B., (pseudonym of Nathaniel Crouch) Delights for the Ingenious, Nathaniel Crouch.
1686 Edmund Arwaker, Pia Desideria, Henry Bonwicke.
1686 John Bunyan, A Book for Boys and Girls, Nathaniel Ponder, (Possible further edition 1690.)
1709 Cesare Ripa, Iconologia; or, Moral Emblems, by Caesar Ripa, Pierce Tempest.
1721 Marin Le Roy, Sieur de Gomberville, The Doctrine of Morality (translated by Thomas M. Gibbs), E. Bell, J. Darby et al.
1724 Thomas Gent, Divine Entertainments, M. Hotham and T. Gent.
?1729 Anon, Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth, T. Green.
1740 Francis Tolson, Hermathenae, or Moral Emblems, and Ethnick Tales (no publisher identified).
1772 John Huddlestone Wynne, Choice Emblems, George Wiley.
1779 George Richardson, Iconology, or a Collection of Emblematical Figures, George Richardson ('printed for the author by G. Scott').
1809 Joseph Thomas, Religious Emblems, being a Series of Engravings on Wood, Executed by the First Artists in that Line from Designs ... by J. Thurston, T. Bensley; reprinted 1810, with new Preface.
1821 Stacy Grimaldi, The Toilet, Stacy Grimaldi, ?London.
1824 Stacy Grimaldi, A Suit of Armour for Youth, S. Bentley.
1830 William Pinnock, Iconology: or Emblematical Figures, John Harris; reissued 1842 as The Golden Treasury, being a Guide to Youth, Effingham Wilson.
1838 Jonathan Birch, Divine Emblems, after the Manner of Master Francis Quarles, Thomas Ward.
1842 Isaac Williams, The Baptistry; or, The Way of Eternal Life, Rivington.
1845 Isaac Williams, Meditations and Prayers Selected from The Way of Eternal Life, John Henry Parker, Oxford.
1846 William Holmes, Religious Emblems, John W. Barber, New Haven, and M. W. Dodd, New York.
1860 Richard Pigot, Moral Emblems, Longman, Green and Roberts.
1861 James Mason Neale, Text Emblems, J. T. Hayes.
1862 W. Harry Rogers, Spiritual Conceits, Griffith, Farran.
1866 Richard Pigot, The Life of Man, Symbolised by the Months of the Year, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer.
1872 Margaret Gatty, A Book of Emblems, Bell, Daldy.
1878 George Spencer Cautley, A Century of Emblems, Macmillan.
1881 R. L. Stevenson, Moral Emblems; 1882 Moral Emblems: A Second Collection, privately printed, Davos-Platz, Switzerland.