Book Title: Spiegel van het menselyk bedrijf : in kleuren vertoond met honderd verbeeldingen, van ambachten, konsten, hanteeringen en bedryven, met verzen / Jan en Kasper Luiken.

Author: Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712

Image Title: The Book Printer: Create your happiness From press and print

Scripture Reference:

• Psalms 90 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Two printers are working at the printing press; finished printed sheets are hanging on suspended drying racks. In the right background, in front of the open windows, a typesetter is setting type in front of a box with type fonts. The Dutch artist and poet, Jan Luiken (1649-1712), was responsible for drawing this emblem and for creating the motto and poem that follow. Jan Luiken and/or his son Casper Luiken (1672-1708) were responsible for its etching. The attendant scripture text is Psalm 90:15-17. Motto: Create your happiness / From press and print. Poem: Press thy mind on the word of the Lord, / So that the holy letter will be neatly / Printed into the heart,/Whereby thou might govern thyself, /And that thou that what pleases God, /Always carries in thy heart. (Translation by Josephine V. Brown, with editorial assistance from William G. Stryker).

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