The scourge of Venus (1614.) / edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

The scourge of Venus (1614.) / edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

Metamorphoses lib. X. English.

[Blackburn, England] : Printed for the subscribers [by C.E. Simms, Manchester], 1876.

viii, 50 p. ; 23 cm x 18 cm

Grosart, A.B. Occasional issues of unique or very rare books ... ; v. 3 (c)

With reproduction of t.-p. of 1614: The scovrge of Venvs: or, The wanton lady. With the rare birth of Adonis. The second impression, corrected and enlarged, by H.A. London, Printed by N.O. and are to bee sold by Robert Wilson, 1614.

Pages 49-50 were issued in 1883 with no. 38 of the series (Fly-leaves, or Additional notes and illustrations ...)

A translation in verse of Ovid's story of Myrrha and Cinyras, Metamorphoses lib. X; ascribed to Henry Austin, though one impression (1620) appeared under the initials A.H. Perhaps based upon juvenile translations of Thomas Heywood. cf. The preface to his Brazen age.

Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899. Occasional issues of unique or very rare books ; v. 3 (c)

Great Britain -- England.

In PR1121 .G8 v.3

"Impression ... limited to fifty copies, of which this is no. 3."