Erasmus, Desiderius

Moriae Encomium: Or a Panegyrick...

      LONDON, WOODWARD, 1709. Signed by Author(s) First edition thus. Translated, with an introductory essay ("To the Reader") by an uidentified person; introductory poem ("To the Author Upon This Translation") signed "M. Morgan. " Frontispiece portrait and 46 engraved illustrations by J. Sturt after Hans Holbein. Full contemporary panelled calf, spine and edges stamped gilt and blind with raised bands, covers ruled and decorated in blind (upper cover becoming detached). Very good. Enclosed in a brown folding box. Fine edition thus of the famous satirical work of the English-adopted Dutch humanist writer (1466-1536), originally published in 1509 (in Latin) and first translated into English by Sir Thomas Chaloner in 1539 (see CBEL I, p. 327). Notable for the engraved illustrations after Holbein.