The picture of incest / by James Gresham (1626) ; edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

The picture of incest / by James Gresham (1626) ; edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.

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

vii, 31 p. ; 23 x 18 cm

Occasional issues of unique or very rare books / Grosart, A.B. ; no. 6

"The original is a small duodecimo, and is now reproduced page for page, line for line, word for word, point for point, literatim"--pref.

Page 31 of notes and illustrations was issued with no. 38 of series in 1883.

With double paging.

A translation from Book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

With reproduction of original title page: The pictvre of incest. Liuely portraicted in the historie of Cinyras and Myrra. By James Gresham. London. Printed for R.A. 1626.

"Flyleaves, or Additional notes and illustrations ..." [PR 1121 G8 v.18].

Occasional issues of unique or very rare books ; no. 6.

Great Britain -- England.

In PR1121 .G8 v.3

"Impression ... limited to fifty copies, of which this is no. 9."