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.

Palace of pleasure. Vol. 1

[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.)]

[14], 135 [i.e. 145], 201-345 [i.e. 341], [1] leaves ; (4to)

"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.

Signatures from DFo.

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

Great Britain -- England -- London.

STC 19121 copy 1

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.

STC 19121 copy 2

HH158/22. Imperfect: lacking *1-2[par.]1, F1 and 4C2-)(2. Provenance: Harmsworth copy

STC 19121 copy 3

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

STC 19121 copy 4

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