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VEEN, Otto van (1556-1629). Q. Horati Flacci emblemata . Antwerp: Hieronimus Verdussen, 1607.
VEEN, Otto van (1556-1629). Q. Horati Flacci emblemata . Antwerp: Hieronimus Verdussen, 1607. 4° (259 x 193mm). Engraved portrait on title, and 103 full-page engraved emblems. (Leaf I2 with marginal tear, slightly affecting engraved surface, O2 with tip of lower blank corner torn away, upper margin of leaf Aa2 with tiny hole, some light browning and spotting.) Early 18th-century Dutch black morocco by the Hague First Stadholder Bindery, richly gilt, red lettering-piece, all edges and inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities a little rubbed). Provenance : James Ford (early signature on title, his note on half title verso) -- Michael Tomkinson of Franche Hall in Worcestershire (19th-century bookplate). AN ATTRACTIVE COPY IN 18TH-CENTURY DUTCH BLACK MOROCCO OF THE FIRST EDITION OF VEEN'S FAMOUS EMBLEM BOOK. The text is compiled from Horace and other classical sources; the emblems after van Veen were engraved by C. Boel, C. Galle and P. de Jode, and possibly also the artist himself, and combine Netherlandish traditions with Southern German and Italian mannerist currents. Van Veen settled in Antwerp in 1585, with Peter Paul Rubens as his pupil from 1596 to 1600. Heckscher & Sherman, Emblem Books in the Princeton University Library , 746; Landwehr, Low Countries 817; cf. Praz p. 523 for the Dutch/French edition.