ERASMUS Desiderius (1466?-1536). Morias Enkomion [Greek]. Stultitiae laus . With commentary by G. Listrius and engravings by Hans Holbein Basel: Genathian, 1676.
ERASMUS Desiderius (1466?-1536). Morias Enkomion [Greek]. Stultitiae laus . With commentary by G. Listrius and engravings by Hans Holbein Basel: Genathian, 1676. 8° (184 x 111mm). Engraved additional title by Kaspar Merian after Holbein, engraved device on title, 3 full-page engraved portrait after Holbein, 1 full-page engraved transcription of Erasmus' memorial stone, and 81 illustrations of which 6 mounted and folding by Merian after Holbein. (Occasional browning some of it due to the adhesive of the mounted plates, occasional offsetting.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, sides to a cottage-roof design centred with an arabesque and filled with floral sprays, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco label, gilt edges, endpapers coated red and filled with a pattern of dots and quatrefoils (corners rubbed). Provenance : cancelled shelf-mark -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). A FINELY BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of In Praise of Folly . The quality of this edition has long been recognised: de Bure, writing in 1775, called it an 'édition fort estimée'. Most of the images are taken from drawings made by Hans Holbein and his brother Ambrosius in the margins of a Froben 1515 edition of Erasmus's work, originally owned by Oswald Geisshüsler Myconius. The folding illustrations are particularly unusual for a work of this period.
ERASMUS Desiderius (1466?-1536). Morias Enkomion [Greek]. Stultitiae laus . With commentary by G. Listrius and engravings by Hans Holbein Basel: Genathian, 1676.
ERASMUS Desiderius (1466?-1536). Morias Enkomion [Greek]. Stultitiae laus . With commentary by G. Listrius and engravings by Hans Holbein Basel: Genathian, 1676. 8° (184 x 111mm). Engraved additional title by Kaspar Merian after Holbein, engraved device on title, 3 full-page engraved portrait after Holbein, 1 full-page engraved transcription of Erasmus' memorial stone, and 81 illustrations of which 6 mounted and folding by Merian after Holbein. (Occasional browning some of it due to the adhesive of the mounted plates, occasional offsetting.) Contemporary red morocco gilt, sides to a cottage-roof design centred with an arabesque and filled with floral sprays, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco label, gilt edges, endpapers coated red and filled with a pattern of dots and quatrefoils (corners rubbed). Provenance : cancelled shelf-mark -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). A FINELY BOUND COPY OF THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION of In Praise of Folly . The quality of this edition has long been recognised: de Bure, writing in 1775, called it an 'édition fort estimée'. Most of the images are taken from drawings made by Hans Holbein and his brother Ambrosius in the margins of a Froben 1515 edition of Erasmus's work, originally owned by Oswald Geisshüsler Myconius. The folding illustrations are particularly unusual for a work of this period.
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