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<dl><dd>181 pages, 1 leaf, 130 (i.e.126), 2 unnumbered pages : (4to)</dd>
<dd>Title in red and black with printer's device, within narrow border (verso blank); head and tail pieces</dd>
<dd>"The Piscatorie eclogs" and "Elisa" have special title pages</dd>
<dd>An elaborate allegorical poem describing the human body with anatomical notes in the margin</dd>
<dd>With signatures</dd>
<dd>Dedication -- To the Readers (signed Daniel Featly) -- Commendatory verses. Latin and English -- The Purple island -- Piscatorie eclogs and other Poeticall miscellanies -- Elisa, or An Elegie upon the unripe decease of S. Antoni Irby -- To my deare friend, the Spencer of this age [poem by Francis Quarles)</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Anatomy; Human Body; Fishing; Human anatomy</div>
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Fletcher, Phineas, 1582-1650</div>
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