Author: ERASMUS, DES.- GUEUDEVILLE [Transl.].- 1728
Title: L'Eloge de la Folie, Composé en forme de Déclamation, par Erasme, Et traduit par Mr. Gueudeville. Avec les notes de Gerard Listre, Et les belles figures de Holbein: Le tout sur l'Original de l'Académie de Basle. Nouvelle édition, revue avec soin, & mise dans un meilleur ordre.
Description: Amsterdam, Chez François L'Honoré, 1728. sm 8vo. W. engr. front. title, engr. vign. on printed title ['B.Picart direxit'], title in red and black, 6 engr. fold. pls. & 75 engr. half page textills. [Unsigned, after Holbein]. Very nice contemp. full clf., spine elaborately gilt, w. red title shield, giltlettered. (Top of spine minimal dam. to cap, headband intact.). (Corners of upper cover bumped / dam.). [n1, *7, **5, A-P8, Q4, R2]. (II (engr. front. title, recto blank), XXIV (prelims), 234, XVII (Index), I (blank) pp.). (Folding plate at p. 32 and following leaf C3 a small part of the blank lower righthand corner torn off.). (Endpaper some offsetting from turn ins.). (Very good copy.). Comp. Cohen de Ricci, c. 348 (edition 1731 in 12mo): A very good copy in its original binding of Erasmus' 'L'éloge de la folie', first published in this form in [Leiden] 1713 [see Waller item 19602], improved and appended and added comments by the dutch humanist Gerard Lister [Lindeboom, DMB, c. 1208 - 1209, 1470/80 - after 1521], translated by Gueudeville. On *3 recto, at the end of the dutch privilege [dated May 1715], we read that Pieter van der Aa, the original owner of the right of translation, sold his rights to R. & G. Wetstein, who in turn sold it to François Honoré. The Honoré editions of 1731 and 1735 have an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title, 6 fold. plates and 75 ills. Our copy, published 1728, only has an engraved frontispiece depicting 3 figures carrying tags that contain the names of a.o. the cardinal sins; there is no engraved plate containing the portraits of Erasmus, Morus and Holbein. Erasmus in his 'study' is depicted on the half page engraving on page 192.: See also 'Erasmus en Leiden', exhibition catalogue 1986, pp. 70 - 71 on this edition and its history of pirated editions and reprints [which numbered at least 22 in the 18th c]. 'De aantrekkelijkheid van het boekje werd verhoogd door de 81 gravures (waarvan 6 uitvouwbaar) gemaakt naar Holbein.': Rosenberg, A., 'Nicolas Gueudeville and his work' (The Hague, 1982), pp. 98 - 102, 167 - 207.:

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