Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses



The title page of Stubbes's popular The Anatomie of Abuses, Containing a Discovery of Vices in a Very Famous island Called Ailgna, Stubbes's anagram for England. A Puritan pamphleteer, educated at Cambridge and Oxford, Stubbes was a powerful, if narrow, moralist. His highly popular Anatomie went through four editions.