Phineas Fletcher’s inscription to Anne Willoughby

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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.”
Phineas Fletcher’s inscription to Anne Willoughby in a “large paper” copy of The Purple Island (1633). The Morgan Library & Museum. PML 78848. Gift of Mr. John F. Fleming.

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Phineas Fletcher’s inscription to Anne Willoughby, daughter of his former patron, Sir Henry Willoughby.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    png
  • file size
    14 MB
  • container title
    Phineas 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 status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Phineas Fletcher
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien. By permission of The Morgan Library & Museum.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide