Beschreibung:

[Brant (Sebastian)] Stultifera Navis... The Ship of Fooles, wherein is shewed the folly of all States... Translated out of Latin into Englishe by Alexander Barclay, title in English and Latin, black letter and Roman types, large woodcut title and numerous woodcuts in the text, ff. 198-206, 254, 257, [35ff. from The Mirrour of good Manners] from another copy with smaller margins, title soiled, some other soiling and a few small stains, slightly browned in places, contemporary and later ink inscriptions on front and lower pastedowns, head of title etc., new free endpapers, Sangorski & Sutcliffe bookbinder's bill dated 1937 tipped-in at end, contemporary calf, blind-stamped diamond decoration on covers within a blind-stamped border of portraits and portcullises, edges and corners repaired, brass clasps with initials ?JAR, rebacked in modern calf, [STC 3546; Pforzheimer 41], folio, [London], [John Cawood], 1570. ⁂ Inscribed at head of title in a contemporary hand, "Ego Ladie ?Otleas bouke". Other contemporary names and inscriptions written in another sixteenth century hand, "John Robinson", "Humphray Cleasby" (described as a merchant of Richmond in 1578), and Richard Spence, and inscribed beginning, "younge folkes be sober in case of mynd lett gods worde be your guide... ". There is a possibility that the John Robinson in question may be John Robinson (d. 1598), Church of England clergyman and college head, a native of Manfield, a bare two miles from Cleasby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Another might be John Robinson (1650-1723), Bishop of London and diplomatist, was born in Cleasby (whose brother, Christopher emigrated to Virginia), though if he did own it he must have given it up by 1676 as per the acquisition note by the Duke of Newcastle in that year. Either way there is a strong indication that this volume is connected to the Robinson family of Cleasby and was connected to a small part of the North Riding of Yorkshire from earliest times. Also with a long Latin inscription in an obscure Secretary hand, and a 17th century ownership inscription of Henry Cavendish, second duke of Newcastle upon Tyne (1630-1691), politician. Also 18th century signature of Thomas Dodsworth in text at end.