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Accession number:
PML 3469.35
Published:
London : printed by and for W. O[nley]. and are to be sold by the booksellers of Pye-corner and London-bridge, [1690?]
Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) : illustration (woodcut) ; 30.1 x 38 cm
Notes:
Full-sheet.
Attributed to Thomas Deloney.
Also published with title: A most pleasant ballad of patient Grissell.
Publication date suggested by Wing.
Based on book 10, novel 10 of the 'Decamerone' by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Printed in five columns in black letter; with a woodcut illustration at the head of the first two columns showing a woman (Grissel) seated at a spinning wheel at left, and a group of huntsmen pursuing a stag at right.
Variant Title:
First lines: Noble marquess / As he did ride a hunting
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