‎EMBLEM BOOK - KRUL, J.H.‎
‎Pampiere wereld Ofte Wereldsche Oeffeninge, Waer in begrepen zijn meest alle de Rijmen en Werken van I.H. Krul. Al te zamen door hem verbetert, en met veel nieuwe Rijmen verrijckt, doorgaens met schoone kopere platen verciert, Afgezondert In Vier Deelen.‎

‎Tot Amsteldam, (By de Weduwe van Jan Jacobsz Schipper), 1681. With engraved title preceding the printed title, and 92 half-page copperplate engravings after A. van de Venne in the text. Four parts in two volumes, bound in one. (14, including the engraved title), 320 pp.; 447, (5, last blank) pp. 4to. Contemporary blind tooled vellum with raised bands. Praz 390; Landwehr, Emblem Books in the Low Countries, 309. Third and last edition (first published in 1644) of this collection of amorous, moralizing, and dramatic poetry.The first print in this work, (on page 11), has been attributed to Rembrandt for a long time, but consensus now attributes the print to Ferdinand Bol. Not only of great artistic value because of the fine plates, but also of great literary interest. Some of the plates are by G. Donck after A. van de Venne. There are 43 copperplates of emblematical interest depicting everyday life in the seventeenth century.Van de Venne began working as a book illustrator, print designer, political propagandist, and poet, collaborating with his brother Jan, a well-known publisher and art dealer. Holland's leading writers employed Van de Venne, whose illustrations contributed greatly to the popularity of Dutch emblem books, which combined pictures and prose to present a moral lesson. After moving to The Hague and joining the Guild of Saint Luke in 1625, Van de Venne was probably employed at court. In 1640 he became the guild's dean. He continued his book and printmaking projects and painted most of his well-known grisaille paintings, many depicting the destitute and maimed. A real master-piece of the Dutch Golden Age. - Quire I in last part slightly misbound. ‎

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