[Fletcher (Phineas)] The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man: together with piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies, 3 parts in 1, first edition, general title printed in red and black and with woodcut printer's device and decorative border, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blanks ¶1, Z4 and [chi]1, B3 and Q1 repaired tear (mostly marginal) without loss of text, closely trimmed at outer margin, occasional spotting, new endpapers, contemporary blind-stamped panelled calf, sympathetically rebacked, spine in compartments and with brown leather label, corners worn, little rubbed and scuffed, Cambridge, [Pforzheimer 376; STC 11082; Westwood & Satchell p.95], small 4to, Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633.

⁂ First edition of Fletcher's chief work, an allegorical poem that attempts to describe the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man. The author was strongly influenced by Spenser, the final f. containing a verse 'To my deare friend, the Spencer of this age', signed Francis Quarles. It includes piscatorial material, which was praised by Izaak Walton and earns it its place in W&S. ²M3&4 missigned N, N2, respectively.