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The palace of pleasure

Title
The palace of pleasure / Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and others; done into English by William Painter; now again edited for the fourth time by Joseph Jacobs...
Author
Painter, William, 1540?-1594
Publication
London : D.Nutt, 1890.

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v.3TextRequest in advance 823P16 I v.3Off-site
v.2TextUse in library 823P16 I v.2Off-site
v.1TextUse in library 823P16 I v.1Off-site

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Additional Authors
  • Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.
  • Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
  • Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.
  • Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916
  • Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833.
Description
3 volumes : facsimiles; 27 cm
Subjects
Note
  • "Of this edition five hundred and fifty copies have been printed, five hundred of which are for sale."
  • A collection of 101 tales, from Italian, French, and classical sources, first printed in two volumes, 1566-67.
  • Based on the privately printed edition of Joseph Haslewood in 1813, with his preliminary matter, and facsimiles of the original title-pages, 1566-67, and reproductions of those of the 2d edition, 1575.
  • "Documents relating to Painter": v. 1, p. [liii]-lxii.
LCCN
03000538
OCLC
  • 626769
  • ocm00626769
  • SCSB-2430888
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries