Beschreibung:

The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man...
part 2 only (of 2: Piscatorie Eclogues), first edition , lacking initial blank, title and final leaf with verse by Francis Quarles, but text complete and including ‘Elisa’ with separate title, collates as ESTC, cropped and lightly browned, slight water-staining at end, inscribed by Cecil Harmsworth to his son “Eric with love from Dad” on front free endpaper, nineteenth century half calf, rubbed, [STC 11082; Westwood & Satchell p.95], [Cambridge, by Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel], [1633]; and 3 others, 17th & 18th century, including a very worn embroidered binding, v.s.