[Rarebooks] For Sale: Quarles "Emblems" & "The School of the Heart"

[Norman Kane]

QUARLES, FRANCIS.   EMBLEMS DIVINE AND MORAL . . . [&] HIEROGLYPHICS 
OF THE LIFE OF MAN.  [BOUND WITH:]  THE SCHOOL OF THE HEART . . . IN 
47 EMBLEMS . . . [&] THE LEARNING OF THE HEART . . .
Both published by Lansdown & Mills, Bristol, 1808.    The first title 
is the 2nd Bristol edition, the second title is the first Bristol 
edition. Old calf, some wear but sound, x, [7]-277, [2], [5]-154, [8] 
pages. Blank lower portion of one leaf excised.  We count 139 
illustrations (the references say 138, and they may be right) + 2 
engraved titles & 2 portraits.  The engraver was Johnson  of 
Bristol.  The second title is erroneously attributed on the title 
page to Quarles, but is really by Christopher Harvey, being an 
adaptation of Van Haeften's "Schola 
Cordis."    $350.00                           (Trade Discount 10%)

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