Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwen Tiijdt. Dordrecht, Hendrick van Esch, 1633

£850 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Jacob Cats’ famous emblem book, Mirror of Old and New Times was first published in quarto at The Hague in 1632, this one of two Dordrecht editions of 1633, the first to be printed in 8vo, with the engravings copied and reduced. Here Cats uses popular rather than classical Dutch, which broadened its appeal and it soon became the source of many household sayings. Provenance: signed at head of title-page by ‘Joseph Hearne’. Tear to p. 181/2 with no loss of text. Praz p. 301. Landwehr Low Countries 152.

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