An anatomie of the metamorpho-sed Aiax : Wherein by a tripertite method is plainly, openly, and demonstratiuely declared, explaned, and eliquidated, by pen, plot, and precept, how vnsauerie places may be made sweet, noysome places made wholesome, filthie places made cleanly. Published for the common benefite of builders, house-keepers, and house-owners. By T.C. traueller, aprentice in poetrie, practiser in musicke, professor of painting; the mother, daughter, and handmayd of all muses artes and sciences.
1596
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An anatomie of the metamorpho-sed Aiax : Wherein by a tripertite method is plainly, openly, and demonstratiuely declared, explaned, and eliquidated, by pen, plot, and precept, how vnsauerie places may be made sweet, noysome places made wholesome, filthie places made cleanly. Published for the common benefite of builders, house-keepers, and house-owners. By T.C. traueller, aprentice in poetrie, practiser in musicke, professor of painting; the mother, daughter, and handmayd of all muses artes and sciences.
Uniform title
New discourse of a stale subject, called the metamorphosis of Ajax. Appendix 1
Created/published
At London : Imprinted by Richard Field, dwelling in the Black-friers, [1596]
Description
[16] p. : ill. ; (8vo)
Associated name
Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, author.
Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Huth Library, former owner.
Bliss, Philip, 1787-1857, former owner.
Harmsworth, R. Leicester (Robert Leicester), Sir, 1870-1937, former owner.
Huth Library, former owner.
Note
Written by Harington under the guise of "T.C. traueller" [i.e. his servant, T. Combe]--Cf. STC.
Date of publication from STC.
Signatures: L8.
Date of publication from STC.
Signatures: L8.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 12771.5
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S4695
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S4695
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Contained in: Folger Shakespeare Library STC 12780
Contained in: Folger Shakespeare Library STC 12780
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Annotations.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
STC 12771.5 copy 1 Bd.w. STC 12779
Folger-specific note
Red goatskin binding, gold-tooled and signed by F. Bedford. Manuscript notes, possibly by Lord Lumley; manuscript ruled in red. Large paper copy. With the author's A new discourse of a stale subiect. 1596 -- An apologie. [1596.] (shelfmark STC 12774.2 Copy 1). Provenance: inscriptions: on t.p. of first item in binding: 'Lord Lumley'; on sig. B1r: initials of Philip Bliss; inscription on front fly-leaf, attributed to Bliss: 'This was Lord Lumley's copy, and contains his Lordship's manuscript notes...'; bookplates of E. M. Cox and Huth library; Harmsworth copy
Folger accession
HH105/21.2
Former call number
STC 12772.3 Copy 1 Bd.w. STC 12779
Call number
STC 12771.5 copy 2 Bd.w. STC 12780
Folger-specific note
Manuscript notes on fly-leaves; manuscript page numbers. Leaves L1 and L8 mounted, L2-7 inlaid; copy stained. With the author's A new discourse of a stale subiect. 1596 -- An apologie. [1596] (shelfmark STC 12774.2 Copy 2) -- Ulysses upon Ajax, a reprint of a 1596 edition: Chiswick Press, 1814. Provenance: inscription on front free endaper: 'R. Nares' [Robert Nares]; bookplates of J. Knight (motto 'militavi non sine gloria') and John William Cole (motto 'deum cole regem serva'); bookseller's label of J. C. Hotten, 151B Piccadilly
Folger accession
3.5.37.2
Former call number
STC 12772.3 Copy 2 Bd.w. STC 12781.2