The deligtful history of Celestina the faire. Daughter to the king of Thessalie : Shewing how she was inchaunted by the three fairies: with the strange aduentures, trauels, chiualries, tournies, combats, victories, and loues of diuers wandring princes and knights errant, but especially of Sir Marcomyr of Tharsus, who did conquest hir by the sword, and enioied her afterwards in mariage, with the Thessalian kingdome for hir dowrie, and his perpetuall inheritance. Done out of French into English.

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Barley, William, 1565?-1614.

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 190:12.

Standardized Title:

Primaleón (Romance). English. Selections.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 244 pages

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Other Title:

Deligtful history of Celestina the faire. Daughter to the king of Thessalie.

Delightful history of Celestina the faire. Daughter to the king of Thessalie.

Delectable historie of Celestina the faire.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by A[dam] I[slip] for William Barley, and are to be sold at his shop at the vpper end of Gratious street, 1596.

Notes:

A translation, with the names changed, of part of a French version by François de Vernassal of the anonymous Spanish romance "Primaleon", a continuation of "Palmerin de Oliva". Misattributed to Francisco de Moraes.

Dedication signed by William Barley, who may be the translator.

Printer's name from STC.

Running title reads: The delectable historie of Celestina the faire.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Cropped at head; quires A, 2F-2I, part of P3-4 in facsimile from L copy; mutilated.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943. 1 microfilm reel. 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 190:12). s1943 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed.) 4910.

OCLC:

61337992