The palace of pleasure beautified, adorned and well furnished, with pleasaunt histories and excellent nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authors. By William Painter clarke of the ordinaunce and armarie.
The palace of pleasure beautified, adorned and well furnished, with pleasaunt histories and excellent nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authors. By William Painter clarke of the ordinaunce and armarie.
Uniform title
Palace of pleasure. Vol. 1
Created/published
[London] : 1566. Imprinted at London, by [John Kingston and] Henry Denham, for Richard Tottell and William Iones[. These bookes are to be solde at the long shoppe at the weast ende of Paules], [1566 (26 Jan.)]
"Kingston pr[inted]. quires A-Oo"--STC. Bookseller's address and month date from colophon. Leaf 145 misnumbered 135; leaf 341 misnumbered 345. Signatures: *⁴ [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]² A-2N⁴ 2O²(-2O2) 3A-4L⁴, ²3M⁴ )(². Leaf 2O2 not attested in any known copy. Stationers' register: Entered to W. Jones 1565-66.
ESTC staff note
Signatures from DFo.
Cited/described in
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.) (STC), 19121 Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, 783 English short title catalogue (ESTC), S110279
cs21. Green goatskin binding, signed by W. Pratt. Imperfect: t.p. and )(1 supplied in facsimile; also lacking *4 and )(2; [par.]1 and 3M1 from another copy; [par.]2 torn and repaired affecting text; 3X2 repaired with some letters in facsimile. Some leaves remargined. The last three lines of sig.Q1r differ from the other copies of this edition in the Folger.
Call number
STC 19121 copy 2
Folger-specific note
HH158/22. Imperfect: lacking *1-2[par.]1, F1 and 4C2-)(2. Provenance: Harmsworth copy
Call number
STC 19121 copy 3
Folger-specific note
cs1764. Limp leather binding, with fragment of manuscript accounts(?) on front paste-down. Imperfect: T.p. is facsimile from 1569 ed.; lacking *1-[par.]2, R1-4 and 3V1-)(2. [par.]3 frayed affecting text. Stained. Manuscript notes
Call number
STC 19121 copy 4
Folger-specific note
cs399. Imperfect: lacking *1-K4, 3X3 and 4L1-)(2; P1, P3, 4F3, and 4H4 torn, affecting text. Provenance: inscription at end: Henry Morgan; E.T. Truman copy