- 622
Painter, William
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Painter, William
- The Palace of Pleasure Beautified Adorned and well furnished with Pleasaunt Histories and excellent Nouels, selected out of diuers good and commendable authours. … Estsones perused corrected and augmented. London: by Thomas Marshe, 1575. [Bound with]: The Second Tome of the Palace of Pleasure, conteyning Store of Goodly Histories, Tragicall Matters, and other Morall Argument, very requisite for delighte and profit. Chosen and selected out of diuers good and commendable authors. London: in Pater Noster Rowe, by Henry Bynneman, for Nicholas England, [1567]
- ink, paper, leather
4to (7 x 5 1/4 ins.; 180 x 129 mm). Black letter, title-page of first work in ink facsimile, second within woodcut border, errata present at end of second title, both with woodcut initials; first work with four leaves having restoration to fore-margins with Gg1 upper corner torn away, headlines occasionally shaved; some minor intermittent staining throughout, errata and last blank loose in second work. Conemporary blind-ruled calf, spine gilt under raised bands, morocco label; joints rubbed and starting with minor exposure of cords, minimal restoration at spine ends.
Provenance
George Steevens (ownership signatures). acquisition: Seven Gables, 1967
Literature
STC 19123 and 19124; ESTC S106506 and S110236; Bartlett 212 and 98; Pforzheimer 784 (second work)
Catalogue Note
First edition of the Second Tome. The woodcut initials in the second work were copied from designs originally for Robert Estienne.