Emblemes
by Francis Quarles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
E M B L E M E S
By
Fra Quarles
London
Printed for J Williams at
The Crowne in St. Pauls Churchyard
1684
DESCRIPTION
(ii) + A1 to A4 + 381pp + (ii)
Book measures 165mm x 115mm approximately.
Bound in original full brown richly polished calf. Spine with four raised bands decoration to compartments and maroon title / author label. Boards with double blin-tooled fillet borders and further blind-tooled decorative margins. Contains around 45 wonderful but rather grotesque small vignette engravings throughout.
CONDITION
Binding is in firm condition with boards holding quite well although with partial cracking along most of hinges. Spine has some losses to head and crumpling to foot. Boards retain a deep rich lustre exhibiting general surface scratches, occasional scuffs, the odd minor nick and blemish, with wear to edges and moderate bumping to corners.
Internally the pages are age-toned and show consistent moderate foxing and spots throughout. Rear paste-down and end-paper heavily browned. Front end-paper and title page (plus verso) have some paper strip repairs undertaken. First 16 pages and last 2 pages are a little fragile to leading edges have some small paper losses. Crossed-out previous owner ink inscription to top of title page dated 1702.
Overall, a nice smaller volume of Quarles' Emblems with lovely vignettes throughout.
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INTERESTING
Francis Quarles (about 8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled Emblems.
The work by which Quarles is best known, the Emblems, was originally published in 1634, with grotesque illustrations engraved by William Marshall and others. The forty-five prints in the last three books are borrowed from the designs by Boetius à Bolswert for the Pia Desideria (Antwerp, 1624) of Herman Hugo. Each "emblem" consists of a paraphrase from a passage of Scripture, expressed in ornate and metaphorical language, followed by passages from the Christian Fathers, and concluding with an epigram of four lines.
In 2022 some kitchen re-fitters found murals in a flat on Micklegate in York city centre (not far from Melmoth Books) which are thought to be based on scenes from Quarles's Emblems.
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- Bookseller
- Melmoth Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MB0621
- Title
- Emblemes
- Author
- Francis Quarles
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Williams
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1684
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...