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AYRES, Philip (1638-1712). Cupids Addresse to the Ladies. Emblemata amatoria, Emblems of Love, Embleme d’amore, Emblemes d’amour. In four languages. London: R. Bently, S. Tidmarch, 1683.
8° (146 x 95mm). Engraved throughout, with title by [?]Francis Barlow and 44 emblems. (A few leaves misbound.) Contemporary calf, covers with gilt double fillet and roll-tool border, gilt edges (rebacked). Provenance: C. Legh (signature on title) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate dated 1894).
FIRST EDITION. Jan van Vianen’s polyglot text in Latin, Italian, French and Dutch appeared in London c. 1682. The English text in Ayres' edition is described by Landwehr as ‘a bad imitation of the Dutch’, and taking van Vianen's edition to be earlier he argues that the plates must also be copied from it. Praz (p. 127) identifies earlier sources, and ODNB concurs that 'Three-quarters of the copper plates are derived from the Amorum emblemata (Antwerp, 1608) of Otho Vaenius (Otto van Veen), and (in these cases) the Latin and Italian verses are from the same source. Almost all the remaining plates are from the Thronus cupidinis (Amsterdam, 1618). It is to be assumed that all the English verses and some of those in French, Latin, and Italian are Ayres's own compositions. Like Ayres's Lyrick Poems, this work looks to the modes and achievements of the first half of the 17th century. Despite this, the book was clearly popular: there were five English editions over the following thirty years'. Later printings in English were published as Emblems of Love. Landwehr Romanic 130; Praz p. 263; Wing A-4307.
8° (146 x 95mm). Engraved throughout, with title by [?]Francis Barlow and 44 emblems. (A few leaves misbound.) Contemporary calf, covers with gilt double fillet and roll-tool border, gilt edges (rebacked). Provenance: C. Legh (signature on title) -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate dated 1894).
FIRST EDITION. Jan van Vianen’s polyglot text in Latin, Italian, French and Dutch appeared in London c. 1682. The English text in Ayres' edition is described by Landwehr as ‘a bad imitation of the Dutch’, and taking van Vianen's edition to be earlier he argues that the plates must also be copied from it. Praz (p. 127) identifies earlier sources, and ODNB concurs that 'Three-quarters of the copper plates are derived from the Amorum emblemata (Antwerp, 1608) of Otho Vaenius (Otto van Veen), and (in these cases) the Latin and Italian verses are from the same source. Almost all the remaining plates are from the Thronus cupidinis (Amsterdam, 1618). It is to be assumed that all the English verses and some of those in French, Latin, and Italian are Ayres's own compositions. Like Ayres's Lyrick Poems, this work looks to the modes and achievements of the first half of the 17th century. Despite this, the book was clearly popular: there were five English editions over the following thirty years'. Later printings in English were published as Emblems of Love. Landwehr Romanic 130; Praz p. 263; Wing A-4307.
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