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The Praise of Folly
by Erasmus, Desiderius
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library [1962], 1962. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 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. Several underlinings in pen, otherwise close to Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a small scratch to the rear panel.
Synopsis
Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy’s Rome and Italy , Pliny’s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly , and also wrote the introduction to Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes , all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who’s Who in the Ancient World . Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00005494
- Title
- The Praise of Folly
- Author
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- The Modern Library [1962]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962
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