An anatomie of the metamorpho-sed Aiax Wherein by a tripartite method is plainly, openly, and demonstratiuely, declared, explaned, and eliquidated, by pen, plot, & precept, how vnsauerie places may be made sweet, noysome places made wholesome, filthy places made cleanly. Published for the common benefite of builders, house-keepers, and house-owners. By T.C. traueller, aprentice in poetrie, practiser in musicke, professor of painting, the mother, daughter, and handmayd of all Muses artes and sciences.

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T.C. = Thomas Combe, Harington's personal servant and the illustrator of the work, whose name appears in full in the original MS., "but perhaps really by Harington himself, whose name appears in a rebus and verse on the last leaf"--Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.). For further discussion of authorship see: A.E.M. Kirwood, The Library, 4th ser., 12 (1931), p. 222; and E.S. Donno, ed. The metamorpho-sed Ajax, 1962. Signatures: L. Apparently published as a sequel to one of the editions of "A new discourse of a stale subject, called the metamorphosis of Ajax", which end with quire K. Variant: title has "poetre, priactiser". Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.