[Footnote 56: The second volume is undoubtedly the rarest of the two. The industrious Langbaine does not appear to have seen it, as in the _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_, 1691, he refers more than once to the originals for stories contained in that volume.] *The Pallace* | *of Pleasure Beautified,* | _adorned and wel furnished with_ | Pleasaunt Historyes and excellent | Nouelles, selected out of diuers | *good and commendable Authours.* | ¶ By William Painter Clarke | of the Ordinaunce and | Armarie. | 1569. | _Jmprinted at London in_ | Fletestreate neare to S. Dunstones | *Church by Thomas Marshe.*--4to. Extends to K k. viij, & is folded in eights. The title is in the compartment frequently used by Marsh, having the stationers’ arms at the top, his own initials at the bottom, and pedestals of a Satyr and Diana, surmounted with flowers and snakes, on the sides. It is a reprint of the first volume without alteration, except closer types. The introduction concludes on the recto of the eleventh leaf, and on the reverse of fo. 264 is the colophon. _Jmprinted at London in Flete_ | _streate neare unto Sainct Dunstones_ | Churche by Thomas Marshe | _Anno Domini._ 1569.[57] [Footnote 57: Dr. Farmer’s copy was Vol. I. 1569, and Vol. II. 1567. Purchased at the sale by Mr. Payne for fifteen guineas. [Bibl. Farm. No. 5993.] The opinion Dr. Farmer entertained of their rarity may be given in his own words: “The _Two Tomes_, which Tom Rawlinson would have called _justa volumina_, are almost annihilated. Mr. Ames, who searched after books of this sort with the utmost avidity, most certainly had not seen them, when he published his _Typographical Antiquities_, as appears from his blunders about them: and possibly I myself might have remained in the same predicament, had I not been favoured with a copy by my generous friend, Mr. Lort.” _Essay on the learning of Shakespeare._] THE PALACE | of Pleasure Beautified | *adorned and well furnished* | with pleasaunt Histories and | *excellent Nouels, selected out* | *of diuers good and commendable Authors. By William Painter Clarke* | of the Ordinaunce | and Armarie. | Eftsones perused corrected | and augmented. | 1575. | Imprinted at London | _by Thomas Marshe._--4to. Extends to signature O o, iiij. and is folded in eights.[58] [Footnote 58: Hence Tanner and others have been erroneously supposed to describe an edition in Octavo, and I have seen copies where the margin, cropped by the intolerable plough of the binder, might have been shown in proof of the conjecture.] Title in same compartment as the last. The introduction is given in nine leaves, and the novels commence the folio, and end at 279. The arguments of every novel, transposed from the beginning, continue for three leaves to reverse of O o iiij, having for colophon, Imprinted at London by | *Thomas Marshe*.