Moral emblems . with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations, from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie. With illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A. The whole translated and edited, with additions, by Richard Pigot.
Jacob Cats (1577-1660)
Category
Books
Date
1860
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018274
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,[2],240p. . ill.. . 4to. Provenance: With a manuscript inscription from the publisher: 'To, Lord Macaulay with the best regards of Thomas Longman. December 29 1859.' Under is written: 'To George Trevelyan Esq In memory of his much beloved uncle Lord Macaulay, who had ceased to live when the above inscription was written, this volume is presented by Thomas Longman. Pater noster Row January 2. 1860.' Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Embossed leather, gilt-lettered on spine: 'Moral emblems / Jacob Cats-Robert Fairlie'; marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
Makers and roles
Jacob Cats (1577-1660) Robert Farlie John Leighton Richard Pigot