The pallace of pleasure beautified, . adorned and wel furnished, with pleasaunt historyes and excellent nouelles, selected out of diuers good and commendable authours. By VVilliam Painter clarke of the ordinaunce and armarie. 1569.
William Painter (c.1540 - 1594)
Category
Books
Date
1569
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3085080
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8],257 leaves. 4to.. Imperfect: lacking some of the preliminary and final leaves, including the title page. Provenance: Nineteenth-century small Baronet's badge bookplate, with Harpur & Crewe crests, with inscription: Calke Abbey Library [associated with Sir George Crewe, 8th Baronet (1795-1844)] and inscribed Hy Crewe 1817. i. Inscribed in ink on front board 'Jane Garthwait her Booke' (17th- or 18th-century) and 'Ann B[scored over] 1784'. Inscribed on first leaf 'Jo: Johnston 1700' and, at bottom, in another hand, 'about 1482'. Heavily annotated throughout, including: ink 'x' marks and sequential numbering on contents list; on verso of Epistle to the Reader, ms ink textual inscriptions with pen trials of 'William Carey' and 'Martha Carey'. Various 16th and 17th-century ink pen trials, marginal markings and text throughout (see: f. 19 'Mary'; f. 20 alphabet trial; fol 34. 'x' ; f.54v - Latin; f.77v, 16/17c inscription; f.108v, 16/17c inscription; f.109v 'impudent & bolde' and manicule; and many other pages with marginal notations on text (f.110, f.112v, f. 147; f. 148v 'Anne Knowsley / Claued Foster / Eliza Talboyse'; f. 149v; f.157; f.165 'William Barnes my [cut off]'; f. 175; f.248v 'Margret [Blake?]'.) Inscribed at foot of final leaf 'Sarah Taylor Booke' (18th?-century). Contemporary annotations in Latin on verso of leaf 54. Binding: Seventeenth-century [?] full [sheep?] leather binding; blind fillet border; blind tooled panel with blind stamped cornerpieces; spine blind ruled. Previous shelfmark: '150' or '158' at top of spine and remnant of serrated edge circular label at bottom.
Makers and roles
William Painter (c.1540 - 1594)