ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). [Moriae encomium]. The praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium, a booke made in latyne ... Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner, anno mdxlix. London: [Thomas Powell], in the house of Thomas Berthelet, 1569 [actually 1557?].

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ERASMUS, Desiderius (1466?-1536). [Moriae encomium]. The praise of Folie. Moriæ Encomium, a booke made in latyne ... Englisshed by sir Thomas Chaloner, anno mdxlix. London: [Thomas Powell], in the house of Thomas Berthelet, 1569 [actually 1557?].

Small 4° (183 x 132mm). Collation: A4 A-T4. Woodcut titleborder [McKerrow & Ferguson 50, with initials T.P. at foot. (Outer and lower blank margin of title skilfully remargined, also lower margin of first A2-4.) Early 19th-century brown straight-grained morocco, tooled in gilt and blind (joints very slightly rubbed), edges gilt. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 47 engraved illustrations from 17th- and 18th-century editions, a 16th-century full-page portrait of Thomas More, a woodcut from the Ship of Fools, 3 leaves of 'prefatory epistle from Erasmus to Tho. More' from a 17th-century edition. Provenance: John Catley, contemporary signature on title.

Second edition. A line-for-line reprint of the first edition of 1549, with the same erroneously dated colophon. STC 10501. Devereux, Renaissance English translations of Erasmus (1983), 23.1.2

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