A collection of emblemes, and moderne quickened with
metricall illustrations,
both morall and divine : and disposed into lotteries …
by George Wither, 1635.
A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened with metricall illustrations, both morall and divine :
and disposed into lotteries … by George Wither.
The first [-fourth] booke; 1635; Henry Taunton, London.
The emblem book of English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist George Wither (1588 – 1667).
Wither was employed by a London publisher called Henry Taunton to write English verses to illustrative the beautiful
allegorical plates made by Gabriel Rollenhagen and Crispin van Passe more than 20 years earlier. Published in 1635,
it coincided with the other most famous English book of emblems by Francis Quarles.
Of Wither’s mostly forgotten literary talents the Scottish author and poet George Gilfillan wrote that
“Wither was a man of real genius, but seems to have been partially insane”.
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