BRANT, SEBASTIAN. Stultifera Navis The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same... Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood 1570. Folio, 277 x 179 mm. (10 7/8 x 7 in.), red levant morocco, covers panelled in gilt with inner floral roll-tooled panel and flower and leaf cornerpiece tools, spine gilt in 7 compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Bedford, slight scratches to upper cover, extremities scuffed, inner hinges cracked, neat restoration to upper margin of title and dedication leaf catching a few letters, skilfully strengthened in ink, these two leaves and O6 possibly supplied from another copy, A2 and B1 torn and repaired affecting text and the woodcut, last leaf with upper inner margins restored obscuring two words, a few other minor marginal repairs, small green stain to ornamental border on Dd2v, washed and lightly pressed. Gothic, roman and italic types, single and double column, shoulder notes, typographical ornaments, 117 woodcuts printed from 106 blocks, previously used in Richard Pynson's 1509 edition (STC 3545), one block (on H1r, X5v and Qq6v) appearing here for the first time, according to Hodnett, the cuts printed within type ornament half-borders, 10-, 6-, and 4-line woodcut initials.Second edition of Barclay's translation of Jacob Locher's Latin version of Das Narrenschiff. This edition also includes The Mirrour of good Maners, i.e., Barclay's translation of Dominicus Mancinus's De quatuor vertutibus, and ends with the Certayne Eclogues, partly by Barclay himself and partly translated from Aenaes Silvius Piccolomini. The woodcuts by Pynson's artist are direct copies of the cuts of Pierre Riviere's French translation, printed in Paris in 1497 (GW 5058), themselves based on the cuts from the original Basel editions of 1494 and 1497. Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett pp. 41-42 and nos. 1824-81, 1883-99, 1901-31. Pforzheimer 41; STC 3546.Provenance: Unidentified bookplate, monogram MDC, with motto "with advance covrage"-- Harold Greenhill, bookplate.

BRANT, SEBASTIAN. Stultifera Navis The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same... Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood 1570. Folio, 277 x 179 mm. (10 7/8 x 7 in.), red levant morocco, covers panelled in gilt with inner floral roll-tooled panel and flower and leaf cornerpiece tools, spine gilt in 7 compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Bedford, slight scratches to upper cover, extremities scuffed, inner hinges cracked, neat restoration to upper margin of title and dedication leaf catching a few letters, skilfully strengthened in ink, these two leaves and O6 possibly supplied from another copy, A2 and B1 torn and repaired affecting text and the woodcut, last leaf with upper inner margins restored obscuring two words, a few other minor marginal repairs, small green stain to ornamental border on Dd2v, washed and lightly pressed. Gothic, roman and italic types, single and double column, shoulder notes, typographical ornaments, 117 woodcuts printed from 106 blocks, previously used in Richard Pynson's 1509 edition (STC 3545), one block (on H1r, X5v and Qq6v) appearing here for the first time, according to Hodnett, the cuts printed within type ornament half-borders, 10-, 6-, and 4-line woodcut initials. Second edition of Barclay's translation of Jacob Locher's Latin version of Das Narrenschiff. This edition also includes The Mirrour of good Maners, i.e., Barclay's translation of Dominicus Mancinus's De quatuor vertutibus, and ends with the Certayne Eclogues, partly by Barclay himself and partly translated from Aenaes Silvius Piccolomini. The woodcuts by Pynson's artist are direct copies of the cuts of Pierre Riviere's French translation, printed in Paris in 1497 (GW 5058), themselves based on the cuts from the original Basel editions of 1494 and 1497. Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett pp. 41-42 and nos. 1824-81, 1883-99, 1901-31. Pforzheimer 41; STC 3546. Provenance: Unidentified bookplate, monogram MDC, with motto "with advance covrage"-- Harold Greenhill, bookplate.

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BRANT, SEBASTIAN. Stultifera Navis The Ship of Fooles, wherin is shewed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same... Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood 1570. Folio, 277 x 179 mm. (10 7/8 x 7 in.), red levant morocco, covers panelled in gilt with inner floral roll-tooled panel and flower and leaf cornerpiece tools, spine gilt in 7 compartments, turn-ins gilt, g.e., by Bedford, slight scratches to upper cover, extremities scuffed, inner hinges cracked, neat restoration to upper margin of title and dedication leaf catching a few letters, skilfully strengthened in ink, these two leaves and O6 possibly supplied from another copy, A2 and B1 torn and repaired affecting text and the woodcut, last leaf with upper inner margins restored obscuring two words, a few other minor marginal repairs, small green stain to ornamental border on Dd2v, washed and lightly pressed. Gothic, roman and italic types, single and double column, shoulder notes, typographical ornaments, 117 woodcuts printed from 106 blocks, previously used in Richard Pynson's 1509 edition (STC 3545), one block (on H1r, X5v and Qq6v) appearing here for the first time, according to Hodnett, the cuts printed within type ornament half-borders, 10-, 6-, and 4-line woodcut initials.

Second edition of Barclay's translation of Jacob Locher's Latin version of Das Narrenschiff. This edition also includes The Mirrour of good Maners, i.e., Barclay's translation of Dominicus Mancinus's De quatuor vertutibus, and ends with the Certayne Eclogues, partly by Barclay himself and partly translated from Aenaes Silvius Piccolomini. The woodcuts by Pynson's artist are direct copies of the cuts of Pierre Riviere's French translation, printed in Paris in 1497 (GW 5058), themselves based on the cuts from the original Basel editions of 1494 and 1497. Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett pp. 41-42 and nos. 1824-81, 1883-99, 1901-31. Pforzheimer 41; STC 3546.

Provenance: Unidentified bookplate, monogram MDC, with motto "with advance covrage"-- Harold Greenhill, bookplate.