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The article focuses on Sadelers may be famous for their production of superior engravings for elite patrons, as well as numerous additional projects and known to have made numerous book illustrations, their self-identification as booksellers and publication of various illustrated texts.

The article reports that when the engraver Charles de Mallery was 60 years old, Anthony van Dyck portrayed him at least three times in a black chalk drawing, an oil sketch and a large painting and his oil sketch served as the basis for Lucas Vorsterman engraving of De Mallery in Van Dyck's potrait.

This article examines how the Moretus family of printer-publishers in Antwerp quickly assumed control of the distribution of Nadal's famous Adnotationes et meditationes in evangelia and accompanying Imagines. The sale of both parts of this work is traced over more than fifty years. The ways in which the market for Nadal's publications burgeoned in the early seventeenth century and ultimately declined by the 1630s are documented. Essential throughout is the great diversity in the demand for these works. For amidst the exceptionally wide-spread, international interest in these works, there was a significant, as yet unrecognized demand for plain copies of the Adnotationes , without any accompanying illustrations. Hence, new insights are given for discussions of the actual spiritual and visual influence exerted by these remarkable publications in the decades immediately following their publication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]