Erasmus of Rotterdam. A Biography by Johan Huizinga; Translated by Frederik Jan Hopman; Introduction by G. N. Clark; Letters Translated by Barbara Flower; Reprint Published 1952 by Phaidon in London. First Thus. Out of Print - OP. Praise of Folly - Beginnings of Humanism and Humanist Teaching.

This is a biography of Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536) by Johan Huizinga. "Erasmus of Rotterdam" is the 1952 English reprint of J. Huizinga's biography of the man who was one of the foremost thinkers and humanists of his time. This edition was published by Phaidon in London. There is a note on the copyright page that the English translation was originally done by F. Hopman in 1924, when it was first published in New York by Charles Scribner & Sons. Further, the note indicates that the selection of Letters by Erasmus were newly translated by Barbara Flower for this edition. The book has an Introduction by G. N. Clark, also for this edition. For these reasons, not only is this the First Printing by Phaidon, but it is also the First Thus. The book has 32 plate illustrations, scattered through the text. Excerpted from the jacket write-up : |> Erasmus of Rotterdam was the most outstanding among the scholars who laid the foundations of modern leaning. His most popular work, the "Praise of Folly", is still being widely read. Erasmus's life and times are treated in this masterly study by one of the foremost historians of the Twentieth Century. |> This book does more than give a portrait of Erasmus the man and an account of his activities. It sketches lucidly the intellectual and religious trends of a period when manuscripts of antique authors were being discovered and edited by the labors of humanists, when the Greek and Hebrew languages began to be seriously studied, when the printing press had begun its revolutionary progress, and when Luther laid the foundations of the Reformed Church. |> This edition contains an interesting selection from the correspondence of Erasmus, newly translated from the Latin. The book has 32 plate illustrations, including portraits of Erasmus - some of the works reproduced are by famous artists such as Durer and Holbein. . <| SERIES : Phaidon Pocket Series TITLE : Erasmus of Rotterdam AUTHOR : J. Huizinga (Johan Huizinga, 1870 - 1945) TRANSLATOR : F. Hopman (Frederik Jan Hopman, 1888 - 1932) LETTERS TRANSLATOR : Barbara Flower INTRODUCTION : G. N. Clark (Sir George Norman Clark, 1890 - 1979) IMPRINT : Phaidon PLACE : London DATE : (1952) EDITION : Reprint (First Phaidon printing, and First Thus, for containing the retranslated Letters and Sir George's Introduction) STATUS : Out of Print - OP PROVENANCE : From the personal library of Professor Emeritus Sidney Wertimer, Jr. of Hamilton College. The book has his inked signature on the front free end-paper (dated1/5/53). DETAILS : Trade Hardcover; 4 1/4" x 7 1/4", yellow cloth binding with brown lettering and decorations - the front cover has a portrait of Erasmus within a round border; contains 32 plate illustrations on calendered paper, an Introduction, selected letters of Erasmus, an index. x + 266 pages; top text-block edge dyed dull ocher; pictorial dust-jacket printed with black lettering and red decorative touches against a buff background. The portrait of Erasmus on the front panel is done in black. The jacket has the same decorative portrait of Erasmus that is on the front board of the cover. The rear panel of the jacket has the publisher's device printed in black. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- DUST-JACKET : GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR -- Clean and crisp with negligible signs of handling; text-bock edges are clean. BINDING -- Solid INTERIOR -- Professor Wertimer made two small ink marks on page six (marking the word 'proparoxytone' - see picture provided), else the interior is clean and free of marking, save for Professor Wertimer's dated signature on the front end-paper. Toning to the two end-papers is a production effect. DUST-JACKET -- The front panel is clean and bright; the spine panel is toned and faded; the rear panel has an unfortunate dark imprint from some volume that was abutting this book (see picture provided).…