The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man. Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies

by Phineas Fletcher

$2,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. 14 , 181, 3, blank , 2, second title , 2, blank , 96, 101-130, 2 pp. Collation: ¶-¶¶4 ¶3 and ¶4 reversed , A-Z4, *2 *1 a blank and *2 reversed , A-M4, O-R4. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary paneled calf, spine gilt. Some rubbing, joints cracked but cords holding, title page repaired on verso, some browning throughout, a few leaves trimmed close at upper margin, back flyleaf partly excised, contemporary Welsh annotations to paste-downs.

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