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Cats, Jacob (1577-1660) Silenus Alcibiadis sive Proteus. Humanae Vitae Ideam, Emblemate Trifariam Variato, oculis Subjiciens, Bound with two other titles.
Amsterdam: Ex officina Typographica Guiljelmi Janssonii, 1619.
Quarto, three parts in one volume, each part with engraved title page; part one illustrated with many text engravings, second part with double-paged plate showing children's sports and pastimes; [bound with] Monita Amoris Virginei, sive Officium Puellarum in Castis Amoribus, Emblemate Expressum, Amsterdam: Jansson, 1619, illustrated with one full-page plate and many large engraved text emblems; [and] Self-Stryt, Middelburgh: Hans vander Hellen for Jan Pietersz van de Venne, 1620, printed in two parts with engraved general title and text engravings; bound in full contemporary speckled sheepskin, spine tooled in gilt; 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
"Cats is one of the major figures in emblem literature, exerting a wide influence on later exponents of the genre. [...] Adriaen van de Venne supplied the designs for the engravings, which were executed by different engravers for different printers." (Quoted from A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Geneva; Droz, 1999.)
