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The Praise of Folly.
de Desiderius Erasmus; translated by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson
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- BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dus
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New York:: Modern Library, 1941.. Second Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 12mo (7.25 inches tall) . Notes, index of proper names. Plain endpapers. Description: This is book number 331 in the Modern Library series. The only printed date is a 1941 copyright. Dating by the ML guide; this is from Fall 1962 The list of titles printed at the rear includes Erasmus, In Praise of Folly; but does not include Hesse, Steppenwolf. Dust jacket rear panel style is l3; binding style 13. Essay and commentary by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- The Bookworm
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 068412
- Título
- The Praise of Folly.
- Autor
- Desiderius Erasmus; translated by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardbound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum cloth with 'ml' and border blind stamped on the front cover; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dus
- Edición
- Second Printing.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Modern Library
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1941.
- Páginas
- 530 pages + ads.
- Tamaño
- 12mo (7.25 inches tall)
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