Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899.

Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Three hundred notable books added to the Library of the British Museum under the keepership of Richard Garnett 1890-1899. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whose blamelesse name hath made her fame so rife: As noble Pompeys most renoumed wife. Hither vnto your home direct your eies: Whereas vnthought on, much more matter lies. From the Heber collection. Only two other copies are known. Bought in 1894. EDWARDS, Thomas. Cephalus & Procris. Narcissus. Aurora musae arnica. [Wolfe’s device.] London Imprinted by lohn Wolfe. 1595. quarto. A fragment of four leaves. A perfect copy, the only one known, is in the library of Peterborough Cathedral. From the Isham collection. Bought in 1894. SABIE, Francis. The Fissher-mans Tale : Of the famous Actes, Life and loue of Cassander a Grecian Knight. Written by Francis Sabie. Cedant arma togis, concedant laurea linguis. [Device.] Imprinted at London by Richard lohnes, at the Rose and Crowne, neere S. Andrewes Church in Holburne. 1595. QUARTO. With the continuation entitled : ‘ Flora’s Fortune. The second part and finishing of the Fishermans Tale. Containing, The strange accidentes which chaunced to Flora, and her supposed father Thirsis; also the happie meeting with her desired Cassander.’ Part i. is dedicated to ‘ the right Worshipfull his verie good friend and Benefactor, M. Henrie Mordant,’ part ii. to ‘M. Francis Tresham.’ The Fisherman’s Tale is a rhyming version of Greene’s ‘ Pandosto.’ Only one other copy is known. From the Isham collection. Bought in 1894. FRAUNCE, Abraham. The Lamentations of Aminta for the death of Phillis. Paraphrastically translated out of Latine into English Hexameters, by Abraham Fraunce. Newly Corrected. [Device.] At London Printed 39 /