L' Eloge de la folie, Compose en forme de Declamation, par Erasme, et traduit par Mr. Gueudeville. Avec les notes de Gerard Listre, & les belles figures de Holbein: Le tout sur Original de Academie de Bale... NOUVELLE EDITION.
Amsterdam: Francois L'Honore, 1735. Holbein. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. [22], 340, [18]. Complete with 8 folding plates and 75 woodcuts in the text. Later eighteenth-century edition of Erasmus's satire attacking the superstitions and corruption of European society. Translated by Nicolas Gueudeville, whose eighteenth-century French versions helped popularize the work during..... More