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Emblemata amatoria = Emblems of love. Embleme d'amore. Emblemes d'amour. In four languages. Dedicated to the ladys

Archive Print Item: Strong Room Engl. 8vo 1683/AYR

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Type of record: Book

Title: Emblemata amatoria = Emblems of love. Embleme d'amore. Emblemes d'amour. In four languages. Dedicated to the ladys

Other titles: Emblems of love. Embleme d'amore. Emblemes d'amour. In four languages. Dedicated to the ladys

Level: Item

Classmark: Strong Room Engl. 8vo 1683/AYR

Creator(s): Ayres, Philip (1638-1712)

Additional creator(s): Veen, Otto van (1556-1629) (Other); Ayres, Philip (1638-1712) (Other); Beckett, Isaac (1653-) (Other)

Related people: Veen, Otto van; Ayres, Philip; Beckett, Isaac

Publisher: Sold by R. Bently [and] S. Tidmarch

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1683

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 92 leaves incl. 45 plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/270628

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991017955689705181

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Hoe: Emblem books, p. 23. Praz: Emblem books, p. 15. Thomas, H. The Emblemata amatoria of Philip Ayres. (In: The Library. London. ser. 3, v. 1 (1910) p. 73-95) Wing A4307.


At head of title: Cupids addresses to the ladies.


Engraved throughout.


Comprises engraved t.p. (signed: IB [Isaac Beckett?] in: et fecit), "Cupid to the ladies, a sonnet," with French translation and full-page engraved illustration, and 44 emblems, each consisting of a full-page engraving facing a page of short verses in Latin, English, Italian and French. Both illustrations and text are for the most part copied from earlier works, e.g. Otto van Veen's Amorum emblemata, 1608.

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Title-page is mounted

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