Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata : imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata

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32596904

Description

Title
Quinti Horatii Flacci emblemata : imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata
Alternative Title
Qvinti Horatii Flacci emblemata
Creator
Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629
Contributor
Lisaert, Philips, 1555-1625, publisher.
Mertens, David, active 1608-1612, printer.
Horace.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Veen, Gijsbert van, 1558-1630, printmaker.
Published / Created
MDCXII [1612]
Publication Place
Antverpiae [Antwerp]
Publisher
Prostant apud Philippum Lisaert, auctoris aere & cura
Description
Plates opposite p. 96 and 98 should be reversed.
Elizabethan Club copy: With thirty-two manuscript extracts from Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies, selected by an unidentified 18th-century English reader and written in the margins, perhaps Herbert Randolph's father? Also several pencil notes have been erased.
Engraved title vignette (portrait of Horace); illustrated with full-page copperplate engravings.
With quotations descriptive of each plate from Horace and other Latin writers, and verses in Spanish, Dutch, Italian, and French, on verso of preceding plate.
Pages numbered on letterpress pages (rectos) only, with an engraved illustration opposite.
Nagler and Bryan attribute the engraving of the plates to Gijsbert van Veen.
Colophon reads: Typis Dauidis Martinij.
Binding: Late 17th-century calf, spine ruled in gilt, red morocco label; covers rubbed and heavily crazed with mottling fluid; rebacked, preserving most of the original spine.
Provenance
Unidentified ink cypher at the head of the title "IRX": Rev. Herbert Randolph, MA (1789-1875) signature on front flyleaf, with a biographical note on Van Veen in his hand referencing De Piles "Lives of [the] painters". Also with a small late 19th-century shelf-label on the front pastedown "2740 nos. 752" and pencilled lot number "1706", probably a Continental auction, and other pencilled notes erased. Anonymous sale, Forum Auctions, 25/9/2020, Lot 17. Maggs; 2021.
Extent
212, [2] p. : 29 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Latin
Dutch
French
Italian
Spanish

Collection Information

Repository
Elizabethan Club
Call Number
Eliz 313

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Quotations
Specimens
Copper engravings
Annotations
Material
ill., port. ;
Subject (Name)
Horace
Subject (Topic)
Emblems
Emblem books
Subjects
Horace > Quotations
Emblems
Emblem books > Specimens
Randolph, Herbert, 1748-1819 > Autograph
Fraser, William, Sir 1826-1898 > Bookplate
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 > Autograph

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
580641
Object ID (OID)
32596904

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