The palace of pleasure
Subtitle: Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola, Queen Margaret of Navarre, and others
By: done into English by William Painter; now again edited for the fourth time by Joseph Jacobs.
Contributors: Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.; Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916, ed.; Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833.
Publisher: D. Nutt
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Italian literature -- Translations into English; Classical literature -- Translations into English
Notes: "Documents relating to Painter": v. 1, p. [liii]-lxii.
"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 2 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.