The ship of fools
By: tr. by Alexander Barclay.
Contributors: Barclay, Alexander, 1475?-1552.; Jamieson, Thomas Hill, 1843-1876.
Publisher: W. Paterson; D. Appleton & co., 1874.; AMS press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Barclay, Alexander, -- 1475?-1552 -- Bibliography.
Notes: Title vignettes.

A free rendering of the Latin version (by Jacob Locher) of Sebastian Brant's "Narrenschiff."

Ed. by T. H. Jamieson.

"The text ... has been printed exactly as it stands in the earlier impression (Pynson's) ... The woodcuts ... have been facsimiled for the present edition from the originals ... in the Basle edition of the Latin ... 1497."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Introduction.  Notice of Barclay and his writings.  Barclay's will.  Notes.  Bibliographical catalogue of Barclay's works.  The ship of fools.; title: v. 2. The ship of fools (cont.)  Glossary.  Chapter 1. of the original (German) and of the Latin and French versions of the Ship of fools.