The Ship of Fools

Лот 87
05.02.2026 10:00UTC +01:00
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$ 53 340
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Место проведенияВеликобритания, London
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Лот 87 | The Ship of Fools
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$ 8 000 – 12 000
BRANT, Sebastian (1458-1521). Stultifera navis, qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia. Translated by Alexander Barclay. London: John Cawood, 1570.

Second English edition of this influential satire blending medieval imagery with humanist ideals. Riffing on the allegory of the "ship of fools," Brant ruthlessly enumerates the categories of human vice and even invents a patron saint of disgusting people. The memorable series of woodblocks depicting the fools' paradise of Narragonia was first used in Richard Pynson's vanishingly rare first English edition of 1509. All but seven blocks were copied from Pierre Rivière's 1497 French edition, which in turn were derived from the cuts by Albrecht Dürer and others from the 1494 Basel first edition. Its enduring popularity, even after didactic poems had largely fallen out of fashion, resulted in many editions and translations. The present copy of this book saw engaged readership for centuries. An early hand has colored the devil pink and added specific speech to the banderoles in the woodcut on p.146 (two fools bragging about their ancestry) and their are ownership marks into the 18th and 19th centuries. ESTC S107135; Pforzheimer 41; STC (2nd ed.), 3546.

Folio (288 x 190mm). Large woodcut on title and woodcut illustrations throughout the text (intermittent dampstain and soiling heavier at ends, scattered small stains, title soiled, repaired tear to 2F4, last several leaves toned). This copy with 2.F3-4 present in duplicate. Later English speckled calf (rebacked, corners and edges restored). Provenance: deleted ownership inscription on title, scattered pink coloring – Samuel Gipkin (ownership signature on title – 18th century page of notes bound in before p. 259 – John Paget, Newberry, 1790 (ownership inscriptions) – John Moore Paget (armorial bookplate) – erased pencil notes to front flyleaves and occasionally in text.
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