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Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes, illustration from Alexander Barclay's English translation of...

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Here begynneth the foles and first inprofytable bokes, illustration from Alexander Barclay's English translation of 'The Ship of Fools', from an edition published in 1874 (engraving)
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1874 AD (C19th AD)
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Alexander Barclay (c.1476-1552) Scottish born English poet, translated Sebastian Brandt's (1457-1521) Das Narrenschiff, as 'The Ship of Fools' in 1509. Image is a facsimile of the original German woodcuts of 1497, it shows a book collector who takes great joy in accumulating books but gains no wisdom from them.

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