F[letcher] (P[hineas]) The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies, 3 parts in 1 vol., first edition, title printed in red and black within typographic border with woodcut device, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking the three blanks but with the often-lacking final leaf of verse by Quarles (creased with repairs to verso), title neatly laid down with lower fore-margin restored, closely shaved, occasionally touching ruled borders, bookplate of John Kermack and George Herbert Palmer to pastedown with the latter's pencil inscription to endpaper, 20th century red morocco, darkened, extremities rubbed, [Pforzheimer 376; STC 11082; Westwood and Satchell p.95], small 4to, Cambridge, 1633.

⁂ First edition of Fletcher's chief work, a poetic allegory that attempts to describe the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of man.