Phineas Fletcher

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Photograph of a brown leather cover with Edward Benlowes’s armorial stamp in gold.
Engraved title page to Jeremias Drexel’s Heliotropium (Cologne, 1630), showing two sunflowers turning toward the sun of divinity.
Benlowes’s inscription in a “large paper” copy of The Purple Island, reading: “Benevolus - Esse suj voluis monumentum & pignus Amoris.”
Phineas Fletcher’s inscription to Anne Willoughby, daughter of his former patron, Sir Henry Willoughby, reading: “To Mrs. A. Wilughby. / Books are but leaues, verse flowers: how fitly can / The flower of verse paint owt the flower of man? / P. F.”
Photograph of an annotated page of *The Purple Island* (1633)
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).
Photograph of a manuscript leaf replacing a lost printed leaf.
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.”
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Engraving showing a pansy and sunflower reaching for the sun with verses signed “P. F.” Printed after the internal title page to Piscatorie Eclogs.
Image of Featley’s letter to the readers in *The Purple Island* (1633)
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Cover of The Purple Island (1633) with Edward Benlowes’s armorial stamp

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Cover of The Purple Island (1633) with Edward Benlowes’s armorial stamp. The Morgan Library & Museum. PML 78848. Gift of Mr. John F. Fleming.
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