1870 Andrea Alciati EMBLEMS
Emblematica Holbein Mythology 100s Woodcuts RARE
“Plenitudo potestatis nihil aliud est quam
violentia.” (The fullness of
power is nothing more than violence).
― Andrea Alciati
An incredible first
edition of Alciati’s ‘Emblemata’.
This 1549 edition includes countless woodcut-engraved devices. These
illustrations helped inspire thousands of imitations throughout Europe on
secular and religious themes. Devices depict pastoral scenes, cathedrals,
military, mythological creatures, and more. ‘Emblematica’ provides important clues and shows - with brevity of
style - concern for the eternal nature of man and human nature. Per Saunders in
“The 17th-century French
Emblem,”
“Alciato’s emblem
book went through a large number of transformations from the original very
crude and simple form. Its early transformation into a work which was both
aesthetically more pleasing and visually more accurate…with a very different
treatment of the original… by Claude Mignault in 1584.”
This beautiful 19th-century
facsimile edition of Alciati’s emblems was collected and edited by Henry Green
who included Alciati illustrations from his 1531, 1534, and 1546 editions of
Alciati.
Item number: #24856
Price: $599
ALCIATI, Andrea
Andreae Alciati Emblematum fontes quatuor : namely, an account of the
original collection made at Milan, 1522, and photo-lith fac-similes of the
editions
Manchester: Published for the Holbein Society, 1870. 1st
edition thus
Details:
· Collation: complete
with all pages
o
Various pagination
throughout
· Language:
Latin
· Binding: Leather;
tight and secure
· Size: ~8.5in X 7in (21.5cm x 17.5cm)
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