Emblems, Divine and Moral

Bristol: Joseph Lansdown & John Mills, 1808. A lovely example of an English Emblem book. Second Lansdown and Mills edition, following the first of 1806. Two works bound as one. Simple half blue leather with dark cloth boards and gilt titles to the spine. The binding is neat, and clean with a couple of marks only. Owner's name… Read more about this item

London: Printed for D. Midwinter et al., 1736. [8], 375pp, [1]. With an engraved half-title and 93 engravings in the text. Bound by Charles Goodall of Leeds in early twentieth-century navy half-calf, buckram boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbing to joints and edges, marking to boards, pen trials to recto and verso of engraved half-title, slight loss to lower… Read more about this item

London: Printed by J. Nutt, and sold by E. Nutt at the MiddleTemple Gate in Fleet-Street. In the Savoy, 1715. Leather. Good/No Jacket. no date, circa 1715 based on ESTC records. Full calf leather. A4, 1-375 (1) pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. An emblem book by the English poet Francis Quarles, containing work paraphrased from the Scriptures… Read more about this item

London: C. Whittingham, 1812. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. pp. 325 [12] Bound in full tree calf with gilt lettering and ruling to the spines; very good with slight wear only, hinges a little cracked but firmly adhered with all cords present. Contents clean and tight, faint dedication to the front free endpaper and few notes to the… Read more about this item

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, J. Batley, and T. Combes, 1723. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo (small). 4" x 6.24". Contemporary calf boards, original spine rebacked with cloth. Marbled endpapers. A.E.Y. 375 pp., [1 p. adverts]. Numerous engraved emblems. Some rubbing and wear to original calf, cracking to calf at boards Ex libris label of S. Johnson. Ink ownership… Read more about this item

J Robins & Co, London, 1824. New Edition. HARDCOVER. Small 8vo. in 1/2 green leather with marbled boards, raised bands to spine, marbled end-papers, all page-block edges gilt, portrait frontispiece, vi + 154pp and 155pp text preceded by 160pp engravings (printed one side only) of the emblems. Armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper dated 1883, small neat… Read more about this item

New York: James Eastburn & Co, 1816. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo [3" x 4.5"]. Contemporary red half-calf boards, original spine rebacked with cloth, 323pp, [ads] illustrated with line-drawings and title page vignette. From the library of I.G. Schorsch, his bookplate on front pastedown with name above. A paper repair on pp. 321 [text and image unaffected]. Some light… Read more about this item

London: Humphrey Moseley. hardcover. very good(+). Frontispiece portrait, otherwise no illustrations. 275pp. Square 12mo, full blind stamped maroon morocco, a.e.g. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1822. Very good(+).<br/> <br/> "Quarles's Emblems achieved an immediate and phenomenal popularity" and is "the work by which his fame was assured" -- DNB 16, 536.<br/> <br/>

Chiswick: C. & C. Wittingham. Good. 1825. Hardcover. 319 pages, illustrated, 5 1/2" x 3 1/2," tan printed boards. The covers are rubbed and soiled with a chipped and cracked spine. The front hinge is loosening. a few stray pencil notes to the contetns, otherwise bright and complete. Good. .

Halifax: Milner & Sowerby, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Thomas Bewick?. Usual slight corner bumps and light cover darkening. Numerous beautiful wood engravings in the style of Thomas Bewick, who may have executed them. Rare! In a custom-cut heavy Mylar jacket. Binding is cloth boards.

Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Green cloth covers with gilded titles & black spine and cover designs. A Very Good copy. Book has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corner, a crack at the front interior hinge (netting visible), & a crack at page 118. Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked. 16mo.

London: A. Betterworth, F. Batley, T. Combes (and others), 1723. Leather_bound. Very Good. Brown, leather-covered boards with embossed gilt rectangular design on front and rear and title on spine. Gilt embossed banding on spine. Leather shows some "alligatoring" and rubbing. Binding is tight. Some foxing and age-toning on pages. Illustrated with engravings. List of "Books Lately Published"… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Tegg, 1845. Half-Leather. Very Good. Half leather over marbled boards. The cover shows some edgewear with rubbing. The binding is sound. There is a bookplate pasted inside the front cover.

Bristol: Joseph Lansdown & John Mills, 1808. Hardcover. Very Good, bound in contemporary 3/4 leather binding with marbled, paper covered boards. Volume housed in a lovely slipcase. Interior is toned but unmarked, binding solid, 12mo, 6 3/4"h x 4 1/4"w. Frontispiece of author, illustrated throughout with copper-engraved plates. 277 printed pages.

Quarles’ Emblems London.: Chiswick Press/ Whittingham/ Jennings, 1818. pp319 with gorgeous b/w plates. 24mo. leather with bright gilt. This is a very nice edition of Francis Quarles major work, "Emblems, Divine and Moral." It was printed in London in 1818 at Chiswick Press by C. Whittingham in 818. 319 pages with many black and white illustrations. It… Read more about this item

London: R. Jennings; Chiswick Press, 1818. Hardcover. Good. Handsomely bound edition of Quarles' massively influential and enduring 1634 emblem book. Comprising of 60 'emblems' over five books which feature newly engraved versions of the original allegorical pictures along with Quarles' verse paraphrasing the related biblical text. Full leather with elaborate gilt decoration to spine and cover.… Read more about this item

London: thomas tegg, 1845. Hardcover - as published. vg five raised bands, leather, gilt decoration, a.e.g, marbled boards and endpapers, no foxing, binding remains tight. .

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Forgotten Books, 2018-04-19. Paperback. Very Good.

Very Good. Quarles’ Emblems London.: Chiswick Press/ Whittingham/ Jennings, 1818. pp319 with gorgeous b/w plates. 24mo. leather with bright gilt. Touch of edgewear but overall near-fine.