Emblems, Divine and Moral, by Francis Quarles. New edition, carefully revised and corrected, with recommendatory prefaces by ... Complete in one volume with eighty engravings

London: John Bennet, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. London, John Bennet, 1839 [first thus]. Duodecimo, viii, [9]-124, 116 pages plus 80 engraved emblem plates and a frontispiece portrait of Francis Quarles. Early blind-decorated full calf and marbled papered boards slightly rubbed (the paper a little more heavily); one opening slightly affected by an acidic bookmark; occasional offsetting of the plates; an excellent copy. Francis Quarles (1592-1644), 'probably the most successful English poet of his age ... "Emblemes" (1635) [was] the work which secured Quarles's fame ... It is Quarles's historical achievement to have established in protestant England the dominant type of the Catholic baroque emblems representing the encounters of Amor Divinus or Divine Love and the Soul. These books were acceptable to moderate Catholics and protestants because they promoted the general tenets of the Christian life, not controversial doctrines' ('Dictionary of National Biography').