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Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. ….
Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. ….
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. ….
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 2.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 3.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 4.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 5.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 6.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 7.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 8.
  • Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. … — photograph 9.

Moral Emblems with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of All Ages and Nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With Illustrations Freely Rendered, From Designs Found In Their Works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. …

Cats, Jacob and Farlie, Robert. Pigot, Richard (Trans. , Ed.) · London

Author
Cats, Jacob and Farlie, Robert. Pigot, Richard (Trans. , Ed.)
Date
1860
Place
London
Publisher
Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Language
English
Binding
4to.(7.5" x 10.5") 240 pp. Full red cloth with black and gilt stamped Celtic(?) design framing a centered all over gilt device with title and a Cross below to both beveled boards. Sun-darkened spine similarly decorated, gilt being a little less bright than boards. All edges gilt. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips, head and foot of spine frayed with loss, boards scuffed and rubbed. Small bookstamp and tiny ink notes to front pastedown, old ink gift inscription to first free endpaper, small binders stamp to rear pastedown of Edmonds & Remnants. Gutters starting, still very secure. Illustrated with 240 illustrations by John Leighton, an engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black ink. Every page framed in thin rule with four different aphorisms, one on each edge (see pic).
Category
Architecture, Art & Craft
Record
S.I.8023

4to.(7.5" x 10.5") 240 pp. 1860. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts. Full red cloth with black and gilt stamped Celtic(?) design framing a centered all over gilt device with title and a Cross below to both beveled boards. Sun-darkened spine similarly decorated, gilt being a little less bright than boards. All edges gilt. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with small loss to tips, head and foot of spine frayed with loss, boards scuffed and rubbed. Small bookstamp and tiny ink notes to front pastedown, old ink gift inscription to first free endpaper, small binders stamp to rear pastedown of Edmonds & Remnants. Gutters starting, still very secure. Illustrated with 240 illustrations by John Leighton, an engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black ink. Every page framed in thin rule with four different aphorisms, one on each edge (see pic).

Condition

Good

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