The design is by William Harry Rogers. London: Griffith and Farran, Corner of St. Paul's Churchyard, 1862. London: Chiswick Press:- Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane. 155x210x35mm. [16], 224p. On the title page verso:"The engraving by Joseph Swain". From the introduction, by Rogers, entitled: ‘To the Reader’: “ The book now offered to the public is an original illustrated companion, having only such affinity to its predecessors as must needs result from its being composed of certain emblematical devices with accompanying letter-press, the devices and the letter-press so illustrating each other as to be manifestly inseparable. In the second place, the fact that the editor and the artist are the same person is probably, a novel feature. In the third place, the emblems have been so grouped as not to prevent a melange of ideas associated by accident, but to give, as far as possible, one consecutive series of thoughts, developing Savanarola’s comprehensive sentiment, “If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.” The Fathers of the Church, the noblest divines of the Middle Ages and the Old English poets, have been pressed into the service of one fixed and unassailable idea, which is clenched in the motto, “No Cross, no Crown;” and to this they have been asked to do duty in such wise as out of discordant parts to make one harmonious whole.”

Ball, Douglas. Victorian publishers' bindings / (London : Library Association, c1985.) p.158 says that "Emblems of Christian Life" is a new edition of "Spiritual Conceits", which he had not seen. Blog http://19thcenturyartistsmonograms.blogspot.co.uk/ E M B King William Harry Rogers p.320. Blog http://19thcenturyartistsmonograms.blogspot.co.uk/