Moriae encomium, id est, Stulticiae laudatio, ludicra declamatione tractata
A 1540 Latin edition of Erasmus's satirical essay In Praise of Folly, printed at Basel by Frobenius and Episcopius for a scholarly readership. The four pictures are decorated woodcut initial letters, the S, D and V, set in dense black grounds with the letter cut out in pale tone.







