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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Folio. 2 volumes. I: cxx, 306pp.; II: viii, 351, [i]pp. Title vignettes. Publisher's original boards. With a frontispiece portrait and illustrations in the text. With the armorial booplate of Thomas H. Smallman. Translated by Alexander Barclay. It is a free rendering of the Latin version by Jacob Locher of Sebastian Brant's "Narrenschiff." From the preface: "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." Includes bibliographical references. Covers somewhat stained; corners bumped. Lower hinge of volume I somewhat exposed.…