LEERZAME ZINNEBEELDEN...Vervolg der Leerzame Zinnebeelden

ADRIAAN SPINNEKER

1972. 2 vols. in 1 in-4to. (14) 220 (4); (10) 144, 90 pp. with engraved frontispiece, 80 full-page emblematical ills. and 4 other plates. Half leather

Reprint of the editions Haarlem, 1756-58

This edition has been provided with an Introduction in English by I.M. Gerards-Nelissen

Leerzame Zinnebeelden can be considered the 18th-century counterpart of Johan de Brune's Emblemata. Unlike most emblem books, which are illustrated with engravings, Spinneker's book contains 84 handsome etchings, all but a few of them designed and etched by V. van der Vinne the Younger.