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Original edition of the collected poetry of Jeremias de Decker illustrated with 14 engravings by Jacques de Gheyn

DECKER, Jeremias de.
Gedichten, versamelt en uytgegeven door J. K.

With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'.

With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'.

With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'.

With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'.

With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'.



Amsterdam, Jacob Colom, 1656. 4to. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. With oval printer's device of the Colom family: a column in fire with the randschrift: 'En de heere tooch voor hen 's'daeghs in een wolck colomme, en des nachts in een vierige colom'. (8) pp.

With:
Incorporates:
With separate title-pages but running pagination and series of quires:
(1) p. 1-58: DECKER, Jeremias de. Baptistes of Dooper, treurspel. Getrocken uyt de Latijnsche vaersen van G. Buchanan. Amsterdam, Jacob Colom, 1656 (corrected from 1654). With the coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title.

(2) p. 59-93: DECKER, Jeremias de. Goede vrydag, ofte het lyden onses Heeren Jesu Christi. Door hem selfs van nieus verbetert en vermeerdert.
Amsterdam, Jacob Colom, 1656 (corrected from 1654). With the coat of arms of Amsterdam on the title. With beautifully engraved frontispiece picturing Jesus in the winepress by Jacques de Gheyn after the design of Karel van Mander and with a poem by Hugo Grotius underneath, 'Jacob Colom excudebat' and 13 numbered full-page engravings picturing the life of Christ, also by Jacques de Gheyn (excudit) and Z. Dolendo (sculpsit) after the designs by Karel van Mander (invent.).

Without separate title:
(3) pp. 94-196: (DECKER, Jeremias de). Adaptations of some Psalms, Sterre der Ooster- wijsen, of Prudentii Lofzang, translations of classical authors (Liersangen uyt Horatius, Ovidius, Juvenalis and Lucretius), occasional poems (death of Daniel Arminius, Stadholder Wlliam II, the King of England), Sterre-beelden, Onderhandeling en verdrag tusschen den Roomschen Bisschop en helschen Kramer.

Without a separate title-page, and with newly starting pagination:
(4) DECKER, Jeremias de. Punt-dichten. Book 1: poems 1-321, pp. (2), 67 (2 blank); Book 2: poems 1-411, pp. 1-96.

The first and original edition of Jeremias de Decker's collected poetry. De Decker (1609-1666) was one of the most important poets of the second generation of the Dutch Golden Age and follower of P.C. Hooft and Vondel. Collected and edited by the publisher Jacob Colom ('J.K.') the book contains De Decker's juvenile poems, mostly adaptations (f.e. Psalms and the play Baptistes of Dooper by G. Buchanan) and translations (of Prudentius, Horatius, Ovidius, Juvenalis and Lucretius), followed by his extensive and well-known poem Goede Vrijdagh ofte het lyden onses Heeren, beautifully illustrated by 14 excellent engravings by the famous engraver and artist Jacques de Gheyn after the designs of Karel van Mander, the biographer of Dutch painters.
Jacob Colom included in these 'Collected works' the three original editions of De Decker's works (1-3), which he had already published separately in 1654 and of which apparently he had still a fair number of copies in stock in 1656. All he had to do was altering the year '1654' on the titles into '1656'. This is also the case in the copy in the Amsterdam University library.

Very good copy.- (With pasted bookplates of V. de la Montagne and Henri Dirkx, and three ms. entries of W.F. Schook  dated 1849).
NNBW I, cols. 691-3; for the engravings, see Hollstein VII, p. 183, nrs. 381-394 (2nd state).

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Dutch  Literary History  Poetry 

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