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This quote appears at the head of chapter three of "The Affair of the Reticulated Box", by Renfrew Werfner:

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A labyrinth of a different type appears in the "Emblems" of Quarles (e.g., in the 1635 edition, bk. iv, no. 2). In this case we are shown a woman walking away from the center of what looks like a tall hedge maze, which has its path on the top of the hedge! With one hand she holds a staff and in the other a cord, the distant end of which is held by an angel located at the summit of a round tower some ways off. A winding path proceeds from this tower to the gateway of the labyrinth. Here and there one sees unfortunate beings who are slipping from the wall into the deep crevasses below.

- W. H. Matthews,
Mazes & Labyrinths, their history and development

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I recently found a copy of this very picture on a torn poster for a local event, scanned it, and cleaned it up. The maze doesn't look to me as though it is made of hedges.

Francis Quarles has a Wikipedia page, and "Quarles' Emblems", his book of pictorially symbolized biblical commentary, is still in print and available to read online or download. New illustrations were made for it in 1857, though, so I don't know which later editions have which pictures.

Description

This quote appears at the head of chapter three of "The Affair of the Reticulated Box", by Renfrew Werfner:

..........................

A labyrinth of a different type appears in the "Emblems" of Quarles (e.g., in the 1635 edition, bk. iv, no. 2). In this case we are shown a woman walking away from the center of what looks like a tall hedge maze, which has its path on the top of the hedge! With one hand she holds a staff and in the other a cord, the distant end of which is held by an angel located at the summit of a round tower some ways off. A winding path proceeds from this tower to the gateway of the labyrinth. Here and there one sees unfortunate beings who are slipping from the wall into the deep crevasses below.

- W. H. Matthews,
Mazes & Labyrinths, their history and development

..........................

I recently found a copy of this very picture on a torn poster for a local event, scanned it, and cleaned it up. The maze doesn't look to me as though it is made of hedges.

Francis Quarles has a Wikipedia page, and "Quarles' Emblems", his book of pictorially symbolized biblical commentary, is still in print and available to read online or download. New illustrations were made for it in 1857, though, so I don't know which later editions have which pictures.