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Full page opening from Francis Quarles’s Emblemes showing the engraved emblem on the verso and the first half of the poem on the recto.
Engraved title page to Jeremias Drexel’s Heliotropium (Cologne, 1630), showing two sunflowers turning toward the sun of divinity.
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Engraved roundel of Ganymede riding an eagle with the motto "NON EST MORTALE QUOD OPTO" written around the circle's edge.
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Engraved image of a muse laying on the globe atop a bag of coins and beside a theorbo gesturing toward heaven.
Cropped close-up of a photograph of lines engraved on the second emblem of *The Purple Island* (1633).
Engraving of Edward Benlowes’s and Phineas Fletcher’s arms entwined and printed on the verso of the title page of *The Purple Island* (1633).
Cropped close-up of a photograph of lines printed in the fifth eclogue of Piscatorie Eclogs, in *The Purple Island* (1633).
Engraving of a ship sailing up a coastline toward a large sun under the phrase “Auentante Deo.”
Photograph of a plate that looks like a title page for a work, Ludus Literarius Christianus, Anthreno-Tripsis seu Crabronum Tritura.
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Engraved frontispiece of Typus mundi (1627), showing St Ignatius of Loyola standing astride the globe and gesturing toward the heavens.
Engraving showing a pansy and sunflower reaching for the sun with verses signed “P. F.” Printed after the internal title page to Piscatorie Eclogs.
Full page opening from Francis Quarles’s Emblemes showing the second half of the emblem’s poem on the verso and the epigrams, blank space, and quattrain on the recto.
Photograph of a plate looking like a frontispiece to the pamphlet Quarleis, the title surrounded by a wreath.
Image of Featley’s letter to the readers in *The Purple Island* (1633)
Full page opening from Francis Quarles’s Emblemes showing an ownership mark and the beginning of the dedicatory letter.

Book 5, Emblem 6 in Quarles’s Emblemes (18th century), poem and epigrams

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Book 5, Emblem 6 in Francis Quarles’s Emblems, divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man (London, 18th century), pages 264-5. Digitized as part of the English Emblem Books Project at Penn State University Libraries.
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