The Praise of Folly

Author: Erasmus, Desiderius
Title: The Praise of Folly
Publication: New York: The Modern Library [1962], 1962
Edition: First edition thus

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xl, [4], 165, [1], [10], [4] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the front board and spine; grey topstain. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with one full-page engraving. Translated by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson (with an essay by the translator). First Printing of the first Modern Library Edition, as per Toledano. Very Good+ / Very Good.

Several underlinings in pen, otherwise close to Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a small scratch to the rear panel.

Seller ID: 00005494

Subject: History, Literature

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