ERASME - L’Éloge de la folie

ERASME The Praise of Folly, translated from Latin by Erasmus by M. Gueudeville. 1757 In-12 (9.5 x 15.3 cm), (4) fff., XXIV-222 pp., bound. Red morocco with a long grain, spine with raised bands, gilt dentelle framing the boards, gilt rolling on the edges and turn-ins, gilded edges. Danish binding of 1800. Heads, corners and joints slightly rubbed, pale stain on the second board. Illustrated edition by Charles Eisen with a frontispiece, 13 plates, banners and tailpieces. It is “revised & corrected from the text of the Basel edition.” From the library of Sigurd & Gudrun Wandel, with bookplate. Sigurd Wandel was a painter who became director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. And bookplate of bibliophile Pierre Mouriau de Meulenacker. Manuscript ex-libris in brown ink on the title: “Edu Matheur”

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