Moral emblems, with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations
An 1862 London emblem book from Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, in which John Leighton re-engraved the seventeenth-century emblems of Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie with Latin mottoes, English translations and proverbs for Victorian readers. Each plate sets a small wood-engraved scene—candles, clenched fists, night streets—inside a symmetrical cartouche of banners, spear finials and sprigged flowers, ready-made frames and motto ribbons.
