Lot 100
Fletcher (Phineas) The Purple Island, or Isle of Man: together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 3 parts in 1, first edition, Cambridge, Printed by the Printers to the Universitie, 1633.
Hammer Price: £500
Description
Fletcher (Phineas) The Purple Island, or Isle of Man: together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 3 parts in 1, first edition, title printed in red and black within typographic border with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking 2 of the three blanks but with the often-lacking final leaf of verse by Quarles, preliminaries misbound, single worm hole through text block of most of book, title browned at edges and slightly brittle, small hole affecting last number of date in imprint, contemporary limp vellum soiled and lacking ties, [Pforzheimer 376; STC 11082; Westwood and Satchell p.95], small 4to, Cambridge, Printed by the Printers to the Universitie, 1633.
⁂ First edition of Fletcher's chief work, a poetic allegory that attempts to describe the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man.
Description
Fletcher (Phineas) The Purple Island, or Isle of Man: together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 3 parts in 1, first edition, title printed in red and black within typographic border with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking 2 of the three blanks but with the often-lacking final leaf of verse by Quarles, preliminaries misbound, single worm hole through text block of most of book, title browned at edges and slightly brittle, small hole affecting last number of date in imprint, contemporary limp vellum soiled and lacking ties, [Pforzheimer 376; STC 11082; Westwood and Satchell p.95], small 4to, Cambridge, Printed by the Printers to the Universitie, 1633.
⁂ First edition of Fletcher's chief work, a poetic allegory that attempts to describe the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man.