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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

Subject

Folly Religious aspects Christianity.

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France Paris.

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England London.

Language code

lat

Identifier

B50886
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