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Author Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.

Title In praise of folly / with illustrations after Hans Holbein and a portrait, together with a Life of Erasmus and his Epistle addressed to Sir Thomas More.

Publication Info. New York ; Chicago [etc.] : Brentano's, 1900.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PA8514 .E5 1900    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 223 pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 18 cm
Note Printed at the Edinburgh University Press.
White Kennett's translation including "Erasmus's Epistle to Sir Thomas More" (p. xv-xxii), the anonymous poems "On the argument and design of the following oration" (p. xxiii-xxiv) and "A poem on the foregoing work" (p. [222]-223). The 1st edition appeared Oxford 1683. The anonymous "Life of Erasmus" (p. iii-xiv) appeared first (?) in the edition, London, 1876. cf. Bibliotheca Erasmaniana ... Moriae encomium, Gand, 1908.
Subject Folly -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Folly -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Added Author Kennett, White, 1660-1728.
Added Title Praise of folly