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CLASSICS IN THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY
HANS HOLBEIN, ILLUSTRATIONS FOR ERASMUS'S IN PRAISE OF FOLLY (1511)
Updated: June 15, 2004

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EDITION USED

Erasmus in Praise of Folly, illustrated with many curious cuts, designed, drawn, and etched by Hans Holbein, with portrait, life of Erasmus, and his epistle to Sir Thomas More. (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

To see the drawings in relationship to the text we suggest you view the facsimile PDF (9.5 MB). This file contains all 77 of Holbein's drawings without the accompanying text.


Holbein's Illustrations to Erasmus' In Praise of Folly

 

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