Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie : with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works
A Victorian emblem book compiled and illustrated by John Leighton after Adriaen van de Venne's designs for Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie, published in London by Longman in 1860 for English readers of moral aphorisms and proverbs. Engravings pair Latin mottoes with English translations inside symmetrical cartouches of arrows, fleurs-de-lis, flower sprays and banderoles, enclosing emblems like a hand gripping a burning candle or costumed figures playing battledore; useful for frame devices, motto panels and allegorical vignettes.
