West Dingle, near Liverpool.
Allow me to add the following to MR. CORSER'S list:
"The Christian's Divine Amusement, consisting of Emblems and
Hieroglyphicks on a great Variety of Subjects, Moral and Divine, in
four books. By the late Rev. Mr. J. Jones. Embellished with near 100
beautiful emblematical cuts, 12mo. pp. 191.: London, 1764."
I know not who the Rev. Mr. J. was, but his book is the old one of Francis
Quarles. The author, or rather adapter, attacks and demolishes the fable as
a method of instruction, and would substitute the emblems. In remodelling
Quarles, Mr. Jones makes the following alterations, or
improvements:--Instead of the Latin motto under each cut, he presents us
with four lines of English verse, which contain a general explanation of
the emblem. The page facing the cut he divides into two parts or sections
of odes and hymns suited to common psalmody, and the moral, or application,
also in a poetical dress.