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The Praise of Folly (Modern Library #331.1)
by ERASMUS, Desiderius
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Poor dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. [c.1962]. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Stated first printing, in an undated copy. Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch theologian who wrote in Latin. This work is one of his most admired series of essays, presented in a Modern Library edition. Translated from the Latin, with a prefatory essay and commentary, by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. Includes a couple of black & white illustrations and index of proper names. --- In Toledano spine 8 / pale green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style j, verso advertises 415 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1941 date appears in book). ML #331.1. --- With discreet pencilings in a few locations, else clean, tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked copy. Poor only price-clipped dust jacket has lost about 1/4 of its spine, and with additional chips, tears and soiling; now protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xli, 164 pages .
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
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83430
- Title
- The Praise of Folly (Modern Library #331.1)
- Author
- ERASMUS, Desiderius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Poor dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1962]
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