The shyp of fooles / by Sebastian Brandt ; translated by Alexander Barclay, 1509 ; edited by Phyllis C. Robinson.

Accession number: 
PML 78625a
Author: 
Brant, Sebastian, 1458-1521.
Published: 
Seal Harbor, Maine : Printed and sold at High Loft, c1982.
Description: 
[58] p. : ill. ; 35 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Mr. August Heckscher.
Notes: 

"The shyp of fooles, set in 16 pt. Blado, on Gutenberg paper, was completed in an edition of two hundred copies in the summer of 1982; at High Loft, the printing office of August Heckscher, Seal Harbor Maine; Tome Coleman and Karen MacDonald, printers"--Colophon. There were 50 copies numbered I to L to be issued with portfolio of Robert Neuman's 6 etchings, published by High Loft the following year.
"The woodcuts for our Shyp of fooles are taken ... from the original Durer woodcuts in the Basle edition of 1497"--P. [6]. They are reproduced from Jameson's 1874 ed., for which the Dürer originals were recut without change by J.T. Reid.
Selections from Barclay's translation (made from an intermediary Latin version) of: Das Narrenschiff.
This copy issued with: A portfolio of six etchings : accompanying The Shyp of fooles of Sebastian Brandt / by Robert S. Neuman ; with an introductory essay by John C. Olin. Seal Harbor, Maine : High Loft, c1983; with spine and half t.p. reading: Ship to Paradise.
No. IX of 50 copies.

Binding: 
1/4 morocco with slate blue paper boards, by Gray Parrot; issued in a linen clamshell box with printed label reading: Shyp of fooles Sebastian Brandt - Ship to paradise Robert S. Neuman.
Provenance: 
August Heckscher.
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