BRANT, SEBASTIAN. Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles, wherein is showed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same...Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood 1570. Folio, 291 x 193mm. (11 7/16 x 7 5/8in.), contemporary English calf, each cover with a centerpiece ornament of five impressions of a scallop tool, the same tool applied as single corner ornaments within a single gilt and three blind fillets, smooth spine with thirteen horizontal double gilt fillets (probably gilded later), remnants of silk ties, upper joint repaired and splitting, lower joint split, spine restored at head and foot and reglued, title leaf restored at top margin, washed and re-inserted, Y2 and Vv4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy. Second edition of Barclay's translation of Jacob Locher's Latin version of Das Narrenschiff , gothic, roman and italic type, single and double column, shoulder and side notes, typographical ornaments, 117 woodcuts printed from 106 blocks, previously used in Richard Pynson's 1509 edition (STC 3545), one block (on H1r, X5v and Qq6v) appearing here for the first time, according to Hodnett, the cuts printed within type ornament half-borders, 10-, 6-, and 4-line woodcut initials. This edition also includes The Mirrour of Good Maners , i.e. Barclay's translation of Dominicus Mancinus's De quatuor vertutibus , and ends with the Certayne Eclogues , partly by Barclay himself and partly translated from Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The woodcuts by Pynson's artist are direct copies of the cuts of Pierre Riviere's French translation, printed in Paris in 1497 (GW 5058), themselves based on the cuts from the original Basel editions of 1494 and 1497. Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett, pp. 41-42 and nos. 1824-81, 1883-99, 1901-31; Pforzheimer 41; STC 3546. Provenance : 1. Powell, in October 1621, inscription (partly erased) at the end of The Mirrour , G6v 2. Bayfield Hall Library, 19th-century press ticket 3. Winston Henry Hagen, bookplate (sale, Anderson, 13 May 1918, lot 24) 4. William D. Breaker (sale, Rains Galleries, 26 November 1935, lot 4) 5. Sinclair Hamilton, morocco book label 6. H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, Part VIII, 30 April 1990, lot 2646, not noting the inserted leaves).
BRANT, SEBASTIAN. Stultifera Navis...The Ship of Fooles, wherein is showed the folly of all States, with divers other workes adioyned unto the same...Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood 1570. Folio, 291 x 193mm. (11 7/16 x 7 5/8in.), contemporary English calf, each cover with a centerpiece ornament of five impressions of a scallop tool, the same tool applied as single corner ornaments within a single gilt and three blind fillets, smooth spine with thirteen horizontal double gilt fillets (probably gilded later), remnants of silk ties, upper joint repaired and splitting, lower joint split, spine restored at head and foot and reglued, title leaf restored at top margin, washed and re-inserted, Y2 and Vv4 supplied from a slightly smaller copy. Second edition of Barclay's translation of Jacob Locher's Latin version of Das Narrenschiff , gothic, roman and italic type, single and double column, shoulder and side notes, typographical ornaments, 117 woodcuts printed from 106 blocks, previously used in Richard Pynson's 1509 edition (STC 3545), one block (on H1r, X5v and Qq6v) appearing here for the first time, according to Hodnett, the cuts printed within type ornament half-borders, 10-, 6-, and 4-line woodcut initials. This edition also includes The Mirrour of Good Maners , i.e. Barclay's translation of Dominicus Mancinus's De quatuor vertutibus , and ends with the Certayne Eclogues , partly by Barclay himself and partly translated from Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini. The woodcuts by Pynson's artist are direct copies of the cuts of Pierre Riviere's French translation, printed in Paris in 1497 (GW 5058), themselves based on the cuts from the original Basel editions of 1494 and 1497. Grolier Langland to Wither 18; Hodnett, pp. 41-42 and nos. 1824-81, 1883-99, 1901-31; Pforzheimer 41; STC 3546. Provenance : 1. Powell, in October 1621, inscription (partly erased) at the end of The Mirrour , G6v 2. Bayfield Hall Library, 19th-century press ticket 3. Winston Henry Hagen, bookplate (sale, Anderson, 13 May 1918, lot 24) 4. William D. Breaker (sale, Rains Galleries, 26 November 1935, lot 4) 5. Sinclair Hamilton, morocco book label 6. H. Bradley Martin bookplate (sale, Sotheby's New York, Part VIII, 30 April 1990, lot 2646, not noting the inserted leaves).
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