Accession number
PML 142034
Creator
Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650.
Published
[Cambridge] : Printed by the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
By Phineas Fletcher.
Includes three poems by F. Quarles preceding and following main body of text.
Mispagination: second page numbering sequence skips from 96 to 101.
Ordinary issue, without the three engraved plates sometimes present (see Hayward).
Piscatorie eclogs and Elisa have separate title-pages, with alternate title for Elisa: An elegie upon the unripe decease of Sr. Antonie Irby. T.p. for Elisa has emblematic woodcut vignette of funeral urn with Latin anagram.
Purple island is an elaborate allegorical poem describing the human body, with anatomical notes in the margin.
Signatures: [par.]⁴[-par. 1, blank] 2[par.]⁴ A-Z⁴[-Z4, blank]; pi²[-pi1 or pi2] A-L⁴, M-N² O-R⁴.
Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel were printers to the university between 1632 and 1640.
Title in red and black.
Includes three poems by F. Quarles preceding and following main body of text.
Mispagination: second page numbering sequence skips from 96 to 101.
Ordinary issue, without the three engraved plates sometimes present (see Hayward).
Piscatorie eclogs and Elisa have separate title-pages, with alternate title for Elisa: An elegie upon the unripe decease of Sr. Antonie Irby. T.p. for Elisa has emblematic woodcut vignette of funeral urn with Latin anagram.
Purple island is an elaborate allegorical poem describing the human body, with anatomical notes in the margin.
Signatures: [par.]⁴[-par. 1, blank] 2[par.]⁴ A-Z⁴[-Z4, blank]; pi²[-pi1 or pi2] A-L⁴, M-N² O-R⁴.
Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel were printers to the university between 1632 and 1640.
Title in red and black.
Description
[14], 181, [3], 130 [i.e. 126], [2] p. ; 19 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of E.H.M. Cox, Edgar F. Leo, and Jerome Kern; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full purple morocco with blind-tooled fish caught at the end of gold-tooled looping lines, by Rivière & Son.
Classification
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