Shelfmark
Gn.6.18
Author
Uniform title
[Moriae encomium]
Title
Mōrias Enkōmion : stultitiæ laudatio. Desiderii Erasmi declamatio.
Edition
Editio castigatissima.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Londini et venit Pariis : apud Barbou, via Mathurinensium., M.DCC.LXV. [1765]
Physical description
[2], xiii, [1], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Note
Editor's dedication signed: A.G. Meusnier de Querlon.
Note
The first two words are transliterated from Greek.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Printer's device on title page.
Note
Plate depicting "La Pazzia Regina del Mondo", engraved by De Longueil and illustrated by H. Gravelot.
Note
Includes head- and tail-pieces.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T138057
Provenance
Ms. note on first front flyleaf recto: "Erasmi Laus Stubtitiae. Typis Barbou. Coll: Perf: W. Thornton empt. a. Bohn. r. mor. Harrow. 1823".
Binding
18th-century red morocco over pasteboards. Covers decorated with triple gilt fillets and tools at the corners; gilt rolls on board edges and turn-ins. Spine with four sewing supports; gilt tools, fillets, and titling ("Stultitiæ laudatio Barbou"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock and three at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Former ECL shelfmarks: Gp.6.5, En.6.38.
Subject
More, Thomas (), 1478 - 1535 Sir, Saint,
Subject
Folly Religious aspects Christianity.
Added entry--name
Barbou, Hugues, 1762 - 1808? printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Longueil, Joseph de, 1730 - 1792 engraver.
Added entry--name
Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699 - 1773 illustrator.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B50886