Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life; together with explanations and proverbs, in French, Spanish, Italian and Latin... The whole curiously engraved on 62 copper plates. Sold by R. Ware...n.d. [c.1730]. 8° (200 x 121mm). Collation: [A.], B-H8, H6 (H 7-8 = A 1-2) (lacks A1 = Blank: and B7). Engraved title-page and 61 (of 62) framed engravings, each with 15 emblems contained within circular frames, surmounting letterpress explanations in double columns. (The French, Spanish, Italian and Latin apophthegms are included here with translations.) Modern quarter cloth, lettered in sans serif on spine, marbled paper boards, new endpapers. Provenance: Moses Mananto His Book May y. 4 1732 (with other names on verso of final leaf). Gottlieb no. 84; Osborne II p. 705, a later edition Gottlieb dates this edition to 1750 ? which is followed by ESTC t 065124, with ESTC ascribing an earlier edition "Sold by I. Cole" to 1735 (?) (n007356). The manuscript date in the present copy however, suggests precedence for the Ware edtion, which is not inconsistent with his trading dates (1724-1756 in Plomer). -- QUARLES, Francis (1592-1644). Emblems Divine and Moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man...London: printed for Alex. Hogg...1778. 12° in sixes (172 x 100mm) pp. 3-8 Recommendatory preface by C. De Coetlogon and prelims; pp. 9-24 Emblems; pp. 241-289 Hieroglyphics; pp. [290-294] Errata; translation of Latin mottos etc. Frontispieces to both sections engraved on copper, with a total of 77 emblematic and 15 hieroglyphic plates. Half-calf, marbled paper sides, green endpapers. ESTC t 094286 describes this as a reissue with cancel title-page of a 1777 edition published by H. Trapp. Both editions are a binding-up of a 10-number publication, the numbers here to be followed by a second volume consisting of Christopher Harvey's School of the Heart (ESTC n036279). In his Recommendatory Preface Mr. De Coetlogon hopes that these Emblems will "convey the most important lessons of instruction into youthful minds...in the most pleasant and entertaining manner." (2)

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Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: containing hieroglyphical and enigmatical devices, relating to all parts and stations of life; together with explanations and proverbs, in French, Spanish, Italian and Latin... The whole curiously engraved on 62 copper plates. Sold by R. Ware...n.d. [c.1730]. 8° (200 x 121mm). Collation: [A^.], B-H⁸, H⁶ (H 7-8 = A 1-2) (lacks A1 = Blank: and B7). Engraved title-page and 61 (of 62) framed engravings, each with 15 emblems contained within circular frames, surmounting letterpress explanations in double columns. (The French, Spanish, Italian and Latin apophthegms are included here with translations.) Modern quarter cloth, lettered in sans serif on spine, marbled paper boards, new endpapers. Provenance: Moses Mananto His Book May y^. 4 1732 (with other names on verso of final leaf). Gottlieb no. 84; Osborne II p. 705, a later edition Gottlieb dates this edition to 1750 ? which is followed by ESTC t 065124, with ESTC ascribing an earlier edition "Sold by I. Cole" to 1735 (?) (n007356). The manuscript date in the present copy however, suggests precedence for the Ware edtion, which is not inconsistent with his trading dates (1724-1756 in Plomer). -- QUARLES, Francis (1592-1644). Emblems Divine and Moral: together with hieroglyphics of the life of man...London: printed for Alex^. Hogg...1778. 12° in sixes (172 x 100mm) pp. 3-8 Recommendatory preface by C. De Coetlogon and prelims; pp. 9-24 Emblems; pp. 241-289 Hieroglyphics; pp. [290-294] Errata; translation of Latin mottos etc. Frontispieces to both sections engraved on copper, with a total of 77 emblematic and 15 hieroglyphic plates. Half-calf, marbled paper sides, green endpapers.
ESTC t 094286 describes this as a reissue with cancel title-page of a 1777 edition published by H. Trapp. Both editions are a binding-up of a 10-number publication, the numbers here to be followed by a second volume consisting of Christopher Harvey's School of the Heart (ESTC n036279). In his Recommendatory Preface Mr. De Coetlogon hopes that these Emblems will "convey the most important lessons of instruction into youthful minds...in the most pleasant and entertaining manner." (2)

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