Stultifera nauis : qua omnium mortalium narratur stultitia, admodum vtilis & necessaria ab omnibus ad suam salutem perlegenda, è latino sermone in nostrum vulgarem versa, & iam diligenter impressa = The ship of fooles : wherein is shewed the folly of all states, with diuers other workes adoiyned vnto the same, very profitable and fruitfull for all men : translated out of Latin into Englishe

Verso of last leaf blank Place and printer from colophon Latin text by Jacob Locher (1497). Reproductions of the woodcuts of the original German ed. (1494). English text in black letter, Latin in Roman "Diuers other workes adoiyned" are: 1) The mirrour of good manners. Conteining the foure cardinal vertues, complied in Latin by Dominike Mancin, and translated into English by Alexander Barclay priest and monke of Ely -- 2) Certayne egloges of Alexander Barclay priest : whereof the first three conteyne the miseryes of courtiers and courtes of all princes in generall, gathered out of a booke named in Latin, Miseriae cvrialium, complied by Eneas Siluius [i.e. Pius II] ... The fourth egloge of Alexander Barclay, entituled Codrus and Minalcas, treating of the behauour of riche men agaynst poetes ... The fyfth egloge of Alexander Barclay, entituled Amintas and Faustus, of the disputation of citizens and men of the countrey [the 4th and 5th eclogues paraphrase Baptista Mantuanus's 5th and 6th eclogues] Signatures: [paragraph sign]-2[paragraph sign]⁶ A-2U⁶ 2X⁴ ²A-G⁶ ³A-D⁶ STC (2nd ed.) Binding: brown goatskin by Riviere. Tooled in gilt and blind. Each board has double frames of filleting with arabesque central medallion. Spine title in gilt: THE SHIP / OF / FOOLES // TRANSLATED / BY / A. BARCLAY // LONDON / J. CAWOOD / 1570. The edges gilt