Accession number:
PML 6461-62
Published:
Imprinted at London : By Thomas Marshe, 1575.
Description:
[18], 279 [i.e. 560], [6] p.
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
A collection of 101 tales, chiefly from the Italian (but also from the French, Latin and Greek), first printed in two volumes, 1566-67--Cf. NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Title within illustrated border.
Numerous errors in paging.
This is the 1st English translation of the novels of Boccacsis Bandetto & other foreign novelists. ... & ... is the source of Romeo & Juliet & Webster's Duchess of Malti.
Ed. 3 of v. I, ed. 2 of v. II.
The second tome contayning store of goodlye histories, tragical mat... requisite for delight and profyte. London : Thomas Marshe, n.d. [1580?].
Binding:
Brown calf with arms of Sir. M.M. Sykes; rebound by Duprez Lahey.
Provenance:
Charles Chauncy MD, bookplate (in v. 1 only); Irwin collection; with arms of Sir. M.M. Sykes, from the Duke of Roxeburghe's collection - see Sykes notes.
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