[Rarebooks] FS: William Ireland's "The Modern Ship of Fools" London: 1807

[Kenneth Karmiole]

 blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important;  padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } [Ireland, William Henry]. STULTIFERA NAVIS: THE MODERN SHIP OF FOOLS. London: for William Miller. 1807. 12mo. xxiv,295,(1)pp. Plus the 8-page catalog of books printed for William Miller. With the half-title. Large, four-fold hand colored frontispiece (11-1/2" long) titled, "fools passing through the Portico of folly." Large woodcut illustration on the title page. Finely bound in half polished calf, gilt, over marbled boards, red morocco spine label. An untrimmed copy.    $375.00 (trade discount allowed)

A modern version of Sebastian Brant's classic. Ireland was most famous as the forger of Shakespeare manuscripts and documents.

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