The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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POOLE, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Roslyn, NY, U.S.A.: Walter J. Black Inc., 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tight binding. No markings in or on book. Almost Fine condition except for slight ageing and cover fading. Covers are grey cloth with gold (gilt) lettering on a red background, corners are as new. Part of a series of Classics Club books..
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Embull Enterprises
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000115
- Title
- The Praise of Folly
- Author
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Walter J. Black Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Roslyn, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Classics Club edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Philosophy; Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Embull Enterprises
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POOLE, Dorset
About Embull Enterprises
Located in Dorset, U.K. selling used books online only
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- New
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