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Quarles' emblems

Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644, Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867, Rogers, W. Harry (William Harry), 1825-1873, Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver, Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver, Dundas, Judith, 1927-2008, former owner. IU-R, Leighton Son & Hodge, binders. IU-R · 1861 · London : James Nisbet and Co., Berners Street · 146 pictures

A Victorian reissue of Francis Quarles's 1635 emblem book, redrawn by Charles H. Bennett and W. Harry Rogers, engraved on wood by Joseph Swain and published by James Nisbet in London in 1861 for devotional readers. Each plate sets a winged child and soul figure in a black roundel ringed with ornament, grotesques, fruit swags and scrolling foliage useful as frames, borders and vignette medallions.

Emblems

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