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pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes
pages from Francis Quarles's Emblemes Pages from a 1658 edition of Francis Quarles's Emblemes.

Francis Quarles's Emblemes (1635) is a significant work in the genre of emblem books. An emblem book typically combines symbolic pictures with mottoes, verse, and prose commentary to convey a moral lesson. Quarles's Emblemes is notable for its grotesque engravings paired with paraphrases of Scripture in ornate language, concluding with epigrammatic verses. This work was highly successful, becoming possibly the most popular book of verse in the 17th century and leading to another publication, Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man. The genre itself originated in 16th-century Europe, with Andrea Alciato's Emblemata being a foundational text.123

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