Marci ZuerI BoxhornI Emblemata politica : accedunt dissertationes politicae de Romanorum imperio, et quaedam aliae
A 1651 Latin emblem book by Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn, printed in Amsteledami (Amsterdam) by Joannes Janssonius, offering political moral lessons to scholars and statesmen. Each emblem pairs a short Latin motto with a small framed engraving of a natural or domestic scene, such as a sower in a field, a snail, a laid table, or a tree-lined landscape. A designer could take the compact framed plates, the numbered Roman headings and the tidy hierarchy of motto above image and caption as a model for layout.
