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The purple island, a poem

Phineas Fletcher (Author), Henry Headley (Writer of supplementary textual content), William Jaques (Writer of supplementary textual content), Burton and Briggs (Bookseller)
Print Book, English, 1816
Printed for Burton and Briggs, London, 1816
Poetry
xiv, 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
16708474
An allegorical poem describing the human body
Originally published 1633, under title: The purple island, or, The isle of man
Henry Headley's critical remarks are extracted from his Select beauties of ancient English poetry, published 1787. Cf. DNB