Engraving 3 in large paper copies of The Purple Island

Resource added
Engraving of a ship sailing up a coastline toward a large sun under the phrase “Auentante Deo.”
Third engraved emblem that Edward Benlowes added to large paper copies of Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633), STC 11082.5.

Full description

Engraving of a ship sailing up a coastline toward a large sun under the phrase “Auentante Deo.” A Latin poem is printed below with an anagram of Edward Benlowes’s name as “Durus, a Deo Benevolus.”

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    3 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
  • credit
    Copyright Copyright The British Library Board, C.34.g.33, tipped in after page 54 of the Piscatorie Eclogues.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights territory
    Worldwide