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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    PETOWE, Henry. Philochasander and Elanira the faire Lady of Britaine. Wherein is discouered the miserable passions of Lone in exile, his vnspeakeable loy receaued againe into fauour, with the deserued guerdon of perfit loue and Constancie. Hurtfull to none, but pleasaunt and delightfull for all Estates to contemplate. By Henry Petowe. Dulcia non meruit qui non gustauit amara. Printed by Thomas Pur foot. 1599. QUARTO. ‘ An almost unknown poem of considerable merit.’ Dedicated ‘to the vertuous and courteous young Gentleman, and his very friend Maister lohn Cowper.’ Only one other copy known. From the Isham collection. Bought in 1894. TOURNEUR, Cyril. The Transformed Metamorphosis. By Cyril Turner. Malo virum pecunia, quam pecuniam viro indigentem. Printed by Valentine Sims, and are to be sold at the signe of the white Swan on Adling hill. 1600. octavo. ‘ An obscurely phrased satire on current iniquities in Church and State.’ Dedicated to Sir Christopher Heydon. Unique. From the Isham collection. Bought in 1894. WHIPPER OF THE SATYRE. The Whipper of the Satyre his pennance in a white Sheete: or, the Beadles Confutation. [Device.] At London Printed for Thomas Pauier. 1601. OCTAVO. A defence of Marston, possibly written by himself, against an attack entitled ‘ The Whipping of the Satire,’ by a certain W. I., published the same year. With a preface in verse ‘ To all iudiciall censurers.’ George Steevens’ copy; only two others known. Bought in 1894.