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Emblems, divine and moral

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Toplady, Augustus Montague, 1740-1778, Ryland, John, 1732-1792, Wilson, Robert, A. M · 1839 · London : Printed at the Milton Press, Chandos Street, Strand, by John Nichols ; John Bennet, no. 4, Three Tun Passage, 25 & 26, Newgate Street · 80 pictures

Francis Quarles's seventeenth-century emblem book, reissued in 1839 by London's Milton Press with commentary by Toplady, Ryland and Wilson for Protestant devotional readers. Eighty small copperplate scenes pair a winged child soul with a haloed Divine Love in landscapes of blasted trees, walled cities, armillary spheres and cloudbanks of cherub heads, supplying compact allegorical figures and ruled plate borders.

Emblems · Emblems, English

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