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ROMANCES, SPANISH, Primaleon .... 1534; (Card 3)
“If we except Torquato Tasso ... Primaleon, the second book of Palmerin de Oliva, is by common consent to be numbered among’ the army of continuations which fail to sustain such merit as their originals may possess. Cervantes ignores it in the ‘famous and diverting scrutiny,’ that is, unless he tacitly includes both books under the title Palmerin de Oliva. Yet Primaleon was as popular in Spain during the sixteenth century as was Palmerin de Oliva. There were some ten editions in the original language between 1512 and 1588. As with Palmerin, a single copy of the first edition is recorded |Catalogue des livres rares et précieux, manuscrits et imprimés, composant la bibliothéque de M. Chedeau, Paris, 1865, no. 990:"—H. Thomas, in Transactions of the Bibl. soc. (London) v. 13, p. 104.
1. Delicado, Francisco, 16th cent., ed. Le Romances, Spani sh,
& 18-19424 * Library of Congress PQO419.P5 1534