Engraving 1 in large paper copies of The Purple Island

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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).
First engraved plate that Edward Benlowes added to large paper copies of Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633), STC 11082.5. Printed on the verso of the title page. Houghton Library, HEW 6.10.6.

Full description

Engraving of Edward Benlowes’s and Phineas Fletcher’s arms entwined.

  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    png
  • file size
    11 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
    Edward Benlowes
  • credit
    Photograph by Whitney Trettien.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights
    CC0
  • rights holder
    Whitney Trettien
  • rights territory
    Worldwide