Title page [in black and blue]: ЭРАЗМ | РОТТЕРДАМСКИЙ | ПОХВАЛЬНОЕ СЛОВО | ГЛУПОСТИ | ПЕРЕВОД И КОММЕНТАРИИ | П. К. ГУБЕРА | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И. СМИЛГИ | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1932 ||

Pagination: [1-7] 8-236 [4], in-text illustrations after Hans Holbein the Younger, title page, DJ, cloth by Л. С. Хижинский, photo reproduction of the portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger from The Louvre museum w/guard paper.

Collation: 8vo; [1]⁸ 2-15⁸, + 1 plate extraneous to collation (portrait).

Binding: 18 x 13 cm; Pictorial stamped cloth, pictorial DJ, pictorial endpapers, back board blind-stamped.

Print run: 5,300 copies.

Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004), №477, p. 221. (in 1930 section).

Contributors:

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (Dutch, c. 1469 – 1536) – author of the original text in Latin.

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497/8 – 1543) – artist.

Губер, Пётр Константинович (Russian, 1886 – 1941) – translator from Latin into Russian (died in GULAG)

Смилга, Ивар Тенисович (Latvian-Russian, 1892 – 1937) – author, foreword (shot by a firing squad).

Хижинский, Леонид Семёнович (Russian, 1896 – 1972) – artist (title page, DJ, cloth).