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An anatomie of the metamorpho-sed Aiax. : Wherein by a tripartite method is plainly, openly, and demonstratiuely, declared, explaned, and eliquidated, by pen, plot, & precept, how vnsauerie places may be made sweet, noysome places made wholesome, filthy places made cleanly. Published for the common benefite of builders, house-keepers, and house-owners. By T.C. traueller, aprentice in poetre, priactiser [sic] in musicke, professor of painting, the mother, daughter, and handmayd of all Muses artes and sciences.

Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612, author.; Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612. New discourse of a stale subject, called the metamorphosis of Ajax.
1596
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Title
An anatomie of the metamorpho-sed Aiax. : Wherein by a tripartite method is plainly, openly, and demonstratiuely, declared, explaned, and eliquidated, by pen, plot, & precept, how vnsauerie places may be made sweet, noysome places made wholesome, filthy places made cleanly. Published for the common benefite of builders, house-keepers, and house-owners. By T.C. traueller, aprentice in poetre, priactiser [sic] 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.
Harington, John, Sir, 1560-1612. New discourse of a stale subject, called the metamorphosis of Ajax.
Note
T.C. = Thomas Combe, Harington's personal servant and the illustrator of the work, whose name appears in full in the original MS., "but perhaps really by Harington himself, whose name appears in a rebus and verse on the last leaf"--Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.). For further discussion of authorship see: A.E.M. Kirwood, The Library, 4th ser., 12 (1931), p. 222; and E.S. Donno, ed. The metamorpho-sed Ajax, 1962.

Signatures: L⁸.

Line 12 of title page ends 1) "poetrie, pra-" or 2) "poetre, pria-".
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MATCHERS: when copy arrives with state 1 title page, new record should be created.
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), 12772
English short title catalogue (ESTC), S103849
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
STC 12772.2 Bd.w. STC 12779.2
Folger-specific note
cs115.3. State 2. Trimmed at fore-edge and foot, affecting side-notes, text, and signature marks; wormed and stained. With the author's: A new discourse of a stale subiect. 1596 -- An apologie. [1596.] (shelfmark STC 12773). Provenance: inscriptions: on t.p. of first item in binding: 'R. Hitch'; on endpapers: 'Townsend', 'C. Large', and 'William Buck'; Sotheby sale, 16-21 March 1903:582