Title: Ein Schock Phantastn in einem Kasten : mit ihrem Pourtrait gar net in Kupffer gebracht und ausgelacht, samt einer Vorred.

Full Title: Ein Schock Phantastn in einem Kasten: mit ihrem Pourtrait gar net in Kupffer gebracht und ausgelacht, samt einer Vorred.

\Summary: First edition of this beautifully illustrated work on an updated "Ship of Fools" theme illustrated with 66 fine etchings by Johann Christoph Weigel ( 1661-1722) who was a noted German engraver, art dealer and Nuremberg publisher. The beautiful plates depict fools from a wide variety of everyday life as well as on special themes including book collecting, fencing, gallantry, guns, luck, gardening, fools for dogs, cats and horses, fashion, law, porcelain and glasses, drinking, alchemists, games, dance, clocks, women, musicians and newspaper fools. The work has Americana interest as well with fine etchings of snuff fools, tobacco smoking fools and unbeliever fools (including an American Indian). The final unnumbered engraving is a mirror for the reader himself "Gar kein Narr": "I'm not a fool"): 65 of the plates were reused in 1709 in a work erroneous attributed Abraham a Sancta Clara titled "Centifolium stultorum."

Language: German.

Physical Type/Description: 6 preliminary leaves, 67 plates ; 31 cm (folio).

General Note: Imprint statement on title page: Zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigel in Nürnberg. Engraved, illustrated title page. Last plate blank, except for letter-press. Each plates has a letter-press in verse, including some by Abraham à Sancta Clara, A. Albertinus, Zeiller, Garzoni, and Butschky.

Citation/Reference Note: Dünnhaupt, p. 163, no. F3. Faber du Faur, 1121. Graesse, I, p. 6.