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HALL, John (1627-1656). Emblems with elegant figures, not before published. London: Roger Daniel, 1658.
12 ° (123 x 65mm). Letterpress title and sectional title with typographical border, 28 engraved emblems. (Foremargins close cut sometimes causing loss to letters or left-hand edge of images, A5 and C6 with losses to bottom margin, C7 torn at bottom with slight text loss, a few other tears close to text, small burn hole to B9-10, D9 and E5, soiling to B8r and a few other leaves, lacking the engraved title which is replaced by a late 19th-century printed title as illustrated.) Contemporary polished calf tooled in blind (spine repaired at foot, upper joints cracked).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this English adaptation of Michael Hoyer’s Flammulae amoris S.P. Augustini (Antwerp, 1629) by the poet, John Hall. As a translator, Hall made a choice of works which ‘was consistently interesting and imaginative’ (ODNB). Thomas Hobbes reportedly said of him: ‘Had not his debauches & intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies, he had made an extraordinary person; for no man had ever done so great things at his age’ . He died at 29 two years before publication of his emblem book. ESTC states that the ‘title page is engraved’, but in this copy the title is letterpress; if it lacks an additional engraved title, the implication is that other copies must lack the letterpress title. The dedication by the publisher is to Dorothy Stanley, wife of Thomas Stanley, and the preface to the reader is signed by John Quarles, one of Francis Quarles’s eighteen children. The text heading ‘Sparkles of Divine Love’ is used as a running title throughout. ‘ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES HAVE SURVIVED’ (Praz p. 166). ESTC locates copies at the BL, Harvard, and the Henry E. Huntington Library only. Praz p. 376; Wing H-344a (Wing H344 is a ghost).
12 ° (123 x 65mm). Letterpress title and sectional title with typographical border, 28 engraved emblems. (Foremargins close cut sometimes causing loss to letters or left-hand edge of images, A5 and C6 with losses to bottom margin, C7 torn at bottom with slight text loss, a few other tears close to text, small burn hole to B9-10, D9 and E5, soiling to B8r and a few other leaves, lacking the engraved title which is replaced by a late 19th-century printed title as illustrated.) Contemporary polished calf tooled in blind (spine repaired at foot, upper joints cracked).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this English adaptation of Michael Hoyer’s Flammulae amoris S.P. Augustini (Antwerp, 1629) by the poet, John Hall. As a translator, Hall made a choice of works which ‘was consistently interesting and imaginative’ (ODNB). Thomas Hobbes reportedly said of him: ‘Had not his debauches & intemperance diverted him from the more serious studies, he had made an extraordinary person; for no man had ever done so great things at his age’ . He died at 29 two years before publication of his emblem book. ESTC states that the ‘title page is engraved’, but in this copy the title is letterpress; if it lacks an additional engraved title, the implication is that other copies must lack the letterpress title. The dedication by the publisher is to Dorothy Stanley, wife of Thomas Stanley, and the preface to the reader is signed by John Quarles, one of Francis Quarles’s eighteen children. The text heading ‘Sparkles of Divine Love’ is used as a running title throughout. ‘ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES HAVE SURVIVED’ (Praz p. 166). ESTC locates copies at the BL, Harvard, and the Henry E. Huntington Library only. Praz p. 376; Wing H-344a (Wing H344 is a ghost).
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The letterpress title, illustrated in the catalogue, is a late 19th-century substitute for the original engraved title-page which is lacking.
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