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Lines from engraving 2 in large paper copies of The Purple Island
Lines of verse by Phineas Fletcher engraved on the second emblem that Edward Benlowes added to large paper copies of Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633), STC 11082.5. Printed on the recto of the leaf after the divisional title page to the Piscatorie Eclogues. Houghton Library, HEW 6.10.6.
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Lines engraved on an emblem. They read: “Look in their Leaves, and see begotten there / The Sunnes lesse Sonne glittring in azure sphere.”
- typeImage
- created on
- file formatjpg
- file size121 KB
- container titlePhineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
- copyright statusPublic Domain
- creatorEdward Benlowes, Phineas Fletcher
- creditPhotograph by Whitney Trettien.
- original publisherUniversity of Cambridge Press
- original publisher placeCambridge
- rights
- rights territoryWorldwide
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