The scourge of Venus (1614).
By: Edited, with introduction and notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart.
Contributors: Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Austin, Henry, fl. 1613, supposed tr.; Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899, ed.
Publisher: printed for the subscribers [by C.E. Simms, Manchester].
Published: 1876
Place of publication: [Blackburn, Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
Notes: 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.
"Impression ... limited to fifty copies, of which this is no. 19."
Pages 49-50 were issued in 1883 with no. 38 of the series (Fly-leaves, or Additional notes and illustrations). See v. 38.
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.