The Picture of Incest
Book Description
The editor, Alexander B. Grosart states The Picture of Incest (book ten of Ovid's Metamorphoses) of 1626 exists as a solitary copy in The British Museum. 'The original is a small duodecimo and is now reproduced page for page, line for line, word for word, point for point, literatim'. This copy is number fifteen of a limited edition of just fifty pamphlets, the Seventh Duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish, having been a subscriber. Provenance Chatsworth House.
Dealer Notes
Scarce. Copac records seven copies, two at the British Library, one each at Oxford and Cambridge and three others.
There are pages unopened
Gresham published in 1626 The Picture of Incest: liuely portraicted in the historie of Cinyras and Myrrha, 12mo. This poem, written in heroic couplets, is a translation from book x. of Ovid's ‘Metamorphoses,’ and is a satisfactory performance. A reprint from the one known copy of the original edition, which is in the British Museum Library, was made by the Rev. A.B. Grosart (1876). Gresham may be identical with the James Gresham who in 1631 married the widow of Roger Hurst, a brewer, and five years later petitioned the king for protection against the creditors of Hurst's estate .
(Wikipedia )
There are pages unopened
Gresham published in 1626 The Picture of Incest: liuely portraicted in the historie of Cinyras and Myrrha, 12mo. This poem, written in heroic couplets, is a translation from book x. of Ovid's ‘Metamorphoses,’ and is a satisfactory performance. A reprint from the one known copy of the original edition, which is in the British Museum Library, was made by the Rev. A.B. Grosart (1876). Gresham may be identical with the James Gresham who in 1631 married the widow of Roger Hurst, a brewer, and five years later petitioned the king for protection against the creditors of Hurst's estate .
(Wikipedia )
Author
Gresham, J.
Date
1876
Binding
Card covers
Publisher
Privately printed for the Subscribers
Condition
Good, some marking to cards, the pages are in very good condition, pages uncut.
Pages
vii, 31
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