1870 Andrea Alciati EMBLEMS Emblematica Holbein Mythology 100s Woodcuts RARE

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 17^th-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 19^th-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. 1^st edition  thus

Details:

• Collation: complete with all pages
  • Various pagination throughout
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.5in X 7in (21.5cm x 17.5cm)

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