Hornstein was the first commercial publisher to support the new discipline of emblem studies. Scholars of literature in various languages offer 10 essays on emblems as they appear in different media at different times and places. Among their topics are Christopher Harvey's School of the Heart, evidence from Spain about the space between heraldry and the emblem, the emblem in architecture, and Sir John Tenniel's emblematic Shakespeare cartoons for Punch. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company.