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Emblems

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Gilliflower, Matthew, publisher, Freeman, William, d. 1715, publisher, Bell, Andrew, d. 1720?, bookseller · 1696 · London : Printed for M[atthew] G[illyflower] and W[illiam] F[reeman] and to be sold by Roger Clavel at the Peacock in Fleetstreet, and Andrew Bell at the Cross-Keys in the Poultrey · 98 pictures

Francis Quarles's Emblems, a Protestant devotional emblem book of verse and engraved plates, reissued in London in 1696 for lay readers who read pictures alongside scripture and moral verse. The small copperplates, copied from Continental Jesuit emblem books, stage a winged Cupid-like divine love and a child soul in dense cross-hatched landscapes, with radiating haloes, hearts, clouds, and emblem frames usable as compact allegorical vignettes.

Emblems · Emblems, English

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