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ONE OF ONLY THIRTY IN VELLUM (CRESSET PRESS.) Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure. 4 volumes. Illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss. Color
ONE OF ONLY THIRTY IN VELLUM(CRESSET PRESS.) Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure. 4 volumes. Illustrated by Douglas Percy Bliss. Color frontispiece in each volume; black-and-white chapter head drawings throughout. 4to, vellum with gilt black morocco spine labels, covers somewhat bowed. London, 1929
- Notes: one of only thirty copies on handmade paper from an edition of 530. Painter compiled Palace of Pleasure from translations of Boccaccio, Herodutus, Livy, and others. It became a popular source of plots for Elizabethan writers.
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