VAENIUS, Otto (1556-1629). Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata... Brussels: Franciscum Foppens, 1683.
VAENIUS, Otto (1556-1629). Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata... Brussels: Franciscum Foppens, 1683. 4 o (279 x 229 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved medallion portrait of Horace, engraved portrait of Otto Vaenius and 103 engaved emblems (some light marginal darkening, repaired tear to p.47, pages 78 and 79 with minor dust soiling). Contemporary vellum, spine ink lettered (some minor age toning). Provenance : A.M. Ledebauer (early signature in paste-downs). Vaenius's Horatian emblem book enjoyed enduring popularity. From its first appearance in 1607 with the text in Dutch, French and Latin, it was reprinted in numerous editions. Its polyglot text -- Spanish, Italian and, as here, French text was added to subsequent editions -- ensured it a Europe-wide readership. In this 1683 edition the engravings are attributed by Nagler and Bryan to Gijsbert van Veen See Landwehr Low Countries 823; See Landwehr Romantic 735; Praz, p.523.
VAENIUS, Otto (1556-1629). Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata... Brussels: Franciscum Foppens, 1683.
VAENIUS, Otto (1556-1629). Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata... Brussels: Franciscum Foppens, 1683. 4 o (279 x 229 mm). Title printed in red and black with engraved medallion portrait of Horace, engraved portrait of Otto Vaenius and 103 engaved emblems (some light marginal darkening, repaired tear to p.47, pages 78 and 79 with minor dust soiling). Contemporary vellum, spine ink lettered (some minor age toning). Provenance : A.M. Ledebauer (early signature in paste-downs). Vaenius's Horatian emblem book enjoyed enduring popularity. From its first appearance in 1607 with the text in Dutch, French and Latin, it was reprinted in numerous editions. Its polyglot text -- Spanish, Italian and, as here, French text was added to subsequent editions -- ensured it a Europe-wide readership. In this 1683 edition the engravings are attributed by Nagler and Bryan to Gijsbert van Veen See Landwehr Low Countries 823; See Landwehr Romantic 735; Praz, p.523.
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