Contributor
DESIGNER:
Lucas de Heere
Geoffroy Ballain
Pieter Huys
WOODCUTTER:
Geeraard Jansen van Kampen
Cornelis Janz Muller
Arnaud Nicolai
Note
IMPRINT:
Excvdebat Christoporvs Plantinvs Antverpiae, VIII. CAL. SEPT. ANNO M. D. LXIV. [1564]
FORMAT:
240 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (8vo).
Signature : A-P 8.
BINDING:
Copy in later vellum binding with spine label and gilt lettering.
CONTENT:
Text at the end pertaining to coins is addressed to Grollierus.
ILLUSTRATION:
166 emblematic woodcuts followed by 46 coins.
A large number of emblems are dedicated to friends and relations of the author (see Landwehr for an elaborate listing).
Zsámboki originally commissioned the artist Lucas d'Heere for the illustrations. Plantin, however, had half of these designs redrawn by Geoffroy Ballain and Pieter Huys. The actual woodcuts were produced by Gerard Janssen van Kampen, Cornelis Muller, and Arnold Nicolai.
Contains an early illustration of a tennis match.
NOTE:
The first new emblem book to appear outside Italy or France. An expanded version followed in 1566. It was published in French in 1567 and in a Dutch translation.
CONDITION:
Somewhat browned and spotted, heavier in some places, some slight dampstaining mostly confined to lower gutter and margins.
REFERENCES:
Adams, S.218
BMSTC, Dutch, p.182.
Graesse, Trésor des livres, vi,p.255.
Landwehr, J. Emblem & fable books, 709
BINDING:
Later vellum binding with spine label and gilt lettering.