Quarles' emblems, divine and moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man
Francis Quarles's seventeenth-century emblem verses reissued in 1800 by the London printer Alexander Hogg for devotional and general readers, each poem paired with a numbered engraved plate. The copperplates set small figures — a winged soul, a radiant child, skeletons, personified vices — in open landscapes inside rococo scroll borders, offering ready-made allegorical vignettes, radiating sun and halo motifs, and decorative frames.
