The life of Erasmus, more particularly that part of it which he spent in England; wherein an account is given of his learned friends, and the state of religion and learning at that time in both our universities. With an appendix containing several original papers.
Cambridge.
Printed By Corn. Crownfield, 1726.
First edition.
8vo.
[8], xxxi, [1], 349, 348-386pp, cxliv, [8]. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 19 engraved plates. Without four terminal leaves (An Index to the Life of D. Colet). Contemporary gilt-tooled sprinkled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Heavily rubbed, scoring to boards, upper joint split, loss to head and foot of spine. Marbled endpapers, very occasional early manuscript corrections to text. Inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf: 'This copy belonged to my Grandfather - I believe a very few copies were printed on large paper, (of which this is one) as it sold at an auction lately, as mentioned in the newspapers, for three guineas. Saml. Knight. 1798'.
A generously margined copy of the first edition of Church of England clergyman and antiquary Samuel Knight's (1677-8-1746) popular eighteenth-century biography of the Dutch Catholic theologian and humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (1466/9-1536).
ESTC T92618.
£ 200.00
Antiquates Ref: 32535
