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1700 CATS, J. - Alle De Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe van den Heer Jacob Cats, Ridder, oudt Raadtpensionaris Van Hollandt, &c. : Op nieus vermeerdert met des Autheurs Tachtig-jarig Leven, Huyshoudinge en Bedenckingen op Zorg-vliet.
Alle De Wercken, soo Oude als Nieuwe van den Heer Jacob Cats, Ridder, oudt Raadtpensionaris Van Hollandt, &c. : Op nieus vermeerdert met des Autheurs Tachtig-jarig Leven, Huyshoudinge en Bedenckingen op Zorg-vliet.
| Maker: | CATS, J. | |
| Date: | Amsterdam, 1700 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 415 x 265 mm / 16.3 x 10.4 inches | |
| Condition: | 2 Volumes in contemp. brown calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, 2 red title-labels. Engraved titles, 2 portraits, 3 double-page plates, and over 400 superb copper-engraved half- and quarter-page plates. | |
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Cats was a Dutch statesman and writer of emblem books, a type of popular, seventeenth-century literature consisting of woodcuts or engravings accompanied by didactic verses pointing a moral or presenting an ethical concern often related to love and marriage. (Dutch artists of the Golden Age, including Vermeer, used such books to inspire motifs in their paintings and prints.) The sources upon which Cats draws for this combination of emblem literature and love poetry are chiefly the Bible and the classics and occasionally Boccaccio and Cervantes.
His first book, Sinne-en minnebeelden ("Portraits of Morality and Love") contained 96 emblematic engravings with text in Dutch, Latin, and French, each emblem with a threefold interpretation, expressing what were for Cats the three elements of human life: love, society, and religion. Perhaps his most famous emblem book, written in a more homely style than his earlier works, is Spiegel van den ouden en nieuwen tyt ("Mirror of Old and New Times"), with 128 emblematical engravings accompanied by quotations, many of which have become household sayings. Two other works: "Houwelyk ('Marriage') and Trou-ringh ('Wedding Ring'), with 59 plates, "are rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity.
Finally, in one of his last books, Ouderdom, buyten-leven en hof-gedachten ("Old Age, Country Life, and Garden Thoughts"), with 27 plates, Cats writes movingly about his declining years. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
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