THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERASMUS. FERGUSON, WALLACE K., edited by. Volume 1, Letters 1 to 141 1484 to 1500. Volume 2, Letters 142 to 297 1501 to 1514. Translated by R. A. B. Mynors and D. F. S. Thomson. Annotated by Wallace K. Ferguson.

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS.

Published by University of Toronto Press 1974-75, Toronto, 1974

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TWO VOLUMES. 4to. 7 x 10 inches. Volume 1, xxv + [iii] + 368 + [2] pp.; Volume 2, xiii + [i] + 374 + [2] pp. Bound in original cloth, gilt with contrasting black spine title labels, gilt in pictorial dust wrappers. A very good set. Illustrated by 2 maps and 25 black and white text plates. The first English translation of the correspondence of Erasmus in its entirety. It includes letters to and from scholars and religious leaders, printers and patrons and princes and prelates in every country of western Europe. The letters are valuable both as literature and as a historical source for the period. Volume 1 includes a section on Money and coinage of the age of Erasmus and Volume 2, on The purchasing power of coins and wages in England and the Low Countries from 1500 to 1514, both by John H. Munro. Both volumes include Tables of Correspondents and Short Title Forms for Erasmus' Works. HISTORY/THEOLOGY LETTERS HISTORY 16TH CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE DUTCH HISTORY/THEOLOGY. Seller Inventory # 23572

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Title: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERASMUS. FERGUSON, ...

Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1974-75, Toronto

Publication Date: 1974