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Emblems, divine and moral

Title: Emblems, divine and moral / by Francis Quarles.
Author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
Publication: London : Sold by Thomas Tegg [and] R. Jennings, and Richard Griffin and Co., Glasgow, 1825

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Chiswick Press. prt

Description

319 p. : ill.; 13 cm.

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Genre/Form

Emblem books – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

Originally published 1635 with title Emblemes.
Illustrations: 79 prints : wood engraving ; image 6 x 5 cm. or smaller. Comprise t.p. vignette and 78 emblems, based on those in earlier editions.
"Come, burst your spleens with laughter to behold A new-found vanity ... that has beset The world, and made more slaves than Mahomet: That has condemn'd us to the servile yoke Of slavery, and made us slaves to smoke"--P. 86. Emblem on p. 85 depicts pipe-smoking angel.

Call Number

Arents 95-53

OCLC

NYPG95-B754

Author

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.

Title

Emblems, divine and moral / by Francis Quarles.

Imprint

London : Sold by Thomas Tegg [and] R. Jennings, and Richard Griffin and Co., Glasgow, 1825 (Chiswick : Printed by C. & C. Whittingham)

Local Note

In Arents copy, some ill. are hand colored.

Arents copy imperfect: p. 15-16 wanting.

Binding: Contemporary half black calf and combed marble paper boards, gilt. In dark red morocco case, gilt; on spine: Henry D. Thoreau's copy.

Provenance: A. Bronson Alcott, Henry D. Thoreau (presentation inscription from former to latter on p. [3]. Cf. "Bibliographical catalogue" in Thoreau's reading / Robert Sattelmeyer. 1988. no. 1134); Agnes Neustadt (bookplate).

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Provenance.

Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 Provenance.

Neustadt, Agnes Provenance.

Added Author

Chiswick Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Arents 95-53

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