The praise of folie
Subtitle: Moriae encomium, a booke made in latyne
By: by that great clerke Erasmus Roterodame ; Englished by Sir Thomas Chaloner knight
Series: Early English Books, 1475-1640 -- 342
Publisher: In Fletestrete in the hovse of Thomas Berthelet; Printed by T. Powell
Published: 1557
Place of publication: Imprinted at London; i.e. London
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Folly; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Moriae encomium
Notes: Signatures: [superscript pi] A⁴ A-T⁴.

Imprint from colophon; actual printer and suggested date of publication from STC (2nd ed.) and McK.& F.

Note "latyne" in title; catchword, B1v: him.

Title within ornamental border (McK.& F. 50).

The second of two editions with same t.-p. and colophon; this edition, according to McK.& F., was reprinted by T. Powell ca. 1557 from Thomas Berthelet's edition of 1549; it has the initials "T. P." in type at foot of t.-p., line 6 of the colophon on recto of T4 ends "so-", and the verso of T4 is blank.

Imprimatur at foot of t.-p.: Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum.

STC (2nd ed.) 10501.