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EMBLEMATIC REPRESENTATION OF HORACE
JANSEN, Anthony. Zinnebeelden, getrokken uit Horatius Flaccus, naer de geestrijke vinding van den geleerden Otto van Veen, op de zeden toegepast; en met bygedichten, op nieuws gerijmt.
Amsterdam, Justus Dankerts, 1683. 4to. With engraved portrait of Horace on title-page and 103 finely engraved emblems by A. Loeimans and A. Seil after Otto Vaenius. Contemporary vellum.
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First edition with the emblematic poetry in Dutch by Anthony Jansen, of the emblematic representation of Horace by Otto Vaenius. The text itself is in Latin, French and Dutch. The plates were newly engraved at Amsterdam, mostly in mirror image, with a few signed by A. Loeimans and A. Seil, little-known artists who probably worked in direct service of the Amsterdam publisher. The emblems however are just as beautifully done as those by Vaenius himself, achieving a fine play with light and darkness by the use of various engraving techniques. All emblems have a motto in Latin engraved below on the copper-plate and a French quatrain printed below, and on the facing page an extensive Latin quotation in verse from Horace and poems in Dutch and French, all with their own captions.
In good condition. Binding slightly stained; some slight browning in the copper-plates.
