Moriae encomium, or, The praise of folly / translated from the Latin text by Harry Carter ; with an introduction by Hendrik Willem Van Loon ; illustrated with woodcuts by Franz Masereel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536, author.

Contributor:

Masereel, Frans, 1889-1972, woodcutter.

Carter, Harry, translator.

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, 1882-1944, writer of introduction.

Krimpen, Jan van, 1892-1958, book designer.

Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, printer.

Pannekoek & Cie., papermaker.

J. Brandt & Zoon, binder.

Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Moriae encomium. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Wit and humor.

Folly.

Piety.

Self-deception.

Marginalia.

Genre:

Woodcuts.

Satires -- 1953.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 125 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Haarlem : Joh. Enschedé en Zonen.

Other Title:

Praise of folly

Place of Publication:

New York : Printed by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, Haarlem, for the Heritage Press, [1953?]

Language Note:

In English: translated from the Latin.

Notes:

Half title.

Notes in margins.

Date of publication estimated from Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter coding, no. X: 17, indicating re-issue date of 1953.

Book design by Jan van Krimpen ... Paper manufactured by the Dutch firm Pannekoek Mills ... Binding done by Gerard Proost at the Brandt Bindery in Amsterdam.--(cf. Heritage Club Sandglass newsletter, no. X:17).

Quarter orange cloth and printed boards with gilt spine. In printed slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.

OCLC:

2387463