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; Haslewood, Joseph, 1769-1833
Publisher: D. Nutt
Published: 1890
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: English literature -- Translations from Italian; Italian literature -- Translations into English; English literature -- Translations from classical literature
Notes: "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 2nd edition, 1575.

"Documents relating to Painter":  v. 1, p. [liii]-lxii.