36 - ERASMUS. *IN PRAISE OF FOOLISHNESS*, composed in the form of a declamation by Erasmus and translated by Mr. Gueudeville. With notes by Gérard Listre and beautiful illustrations by Holbein. All based on the original edition published by the Basel Academy. Amsterdam, François L’Honoré, 1728. 12mo, fawn sheepskin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons, red leather title label, head and foot caps with gold fillet, edges speckled in red (later binding); frontispiece and illustrated title page, title printed in red and black and adorned with a woodcut vignette, (12) ff., 340 pages, 7 plates separate from the text, (10) ff. of endpapers. Light foxing on the fold-out plates. FIRST FRENCH TRANSLATION of this work, reproducing the beautiful illustration from the 1713 edition. It contains a FRONTISPICE with portraits of Erasmus, Holbein, and Thomas More; a TITLE PAGE illustrated with an allegorical engraving; 6 fold-out copperplate engravings; and 75 half-page engravings in the text based on works by Hans HOLBEIN. A CHARMING COPY, preserved in a well-crafted pastiche binding. ¶ Cohen, 348, which describes only the 1731 edition by the same publisher.