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Title: The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1

Author: William Painter

Release Date: January 1, 2007 [EBook #20241]

Language: English

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The

*PALACE OF PLEASURE*

_Elizabethan Versions of Italian and French Novels_
_from Boccaccio, Bandello, Cinthio, Straparola,_
_Queen Margaret of Navarre,_
_and Others_

Done Into English

By WILLIAM PAINTER

_Now Again Edited For The Fourth Time_

By JOSEPH JACOBS

VOL. I.

[Illustration: Publisher's Device]

_London: Published by David Nutt in the Strand_

MDCCCXC

Ballantyne Press
Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.
Edinburgh and London

To
_EDWARD BURNE-JONE