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L'Eloge de la folie...nouvelle édition, revue avec soin, & mise dans un meilleur ordre
After: Hans Holbein, the Younger (German, 1497 or 1498–1543)
Engraved by: Unidentified artist, Dutch, 18th century
Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Netherlandish (worked in England and Switzerland), died in 1536)
Printer: François L'Honoré (Dutch, active 1699–1740)
Engraved by: Unidentified artist, Dutch, 18th century
Author: Desiderius Erasmus (Netherlandish (worked in England and Switzerland), died in 1536)
Printer: François L'Honoré (Dutch, active 1699–1740)
1728
Place of Publication: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 84 engravings
Dimensions
Overall: 17 x 11.4 x 2.3 cm (6 11/16 x 4 1/2 x 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1582
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsPrints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Amsterdam: François L'Honoré, 1728
Catalogue Raisonné
Brunet II, 1038; Cohen-de Ricci 348 (1731 ed.)
Description(Amsterdam: François L'Honoré, 1728) Octavo; 138 leaves, plus two plates and six folding plates; nineteenth-century gilt-stamped green morocco (P. B. Sanford).
Allegorical frontispiece; portrait of author and others; illustrations of human follies
Allegorical frontispiece; portrait of author and others; illustrations of human follies
ProvenanceC.E. Pratt (signature and date "IX.92"; with note of binding for him, Nov. 93); acquired in 1906 by William A. Sargent (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.