Apophthegmes That Is To Saie Prompte Quicke Wittie And Sentencious Saiynges Of Certain Emperours

by Erasmus Nicolas Udall

$25,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

London: Richard Grafton, 1542. First English translation of Erasmus' collection of Classical wisdom. Small octavo, *-**8 ***4 a-z8 A-X8 Y6, lacking leaf z1 p. 177 and blank leaf Y6., 376 leaves foliated. xx , 176, 178-345, 12 pp. 62 '53', 64 '55', 83 '81', 100 '84', 119 '118', 122 '101', 144 '143', 222 '224', 224 '222', 225 '522', 273 '275', 275 '273', 277 '279', 279 '277', 311 '310' . Blackletter type on laid paper,

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