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A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work of the best state of a public weal, and of the new isle called Utopia / written in Latin by the right worthy and famous Sir Thomas More, Knight ; and translated into English by Raphe Robinson, A. D. 1551 ; With copious notes, and a biographical and literary introduction by T. F. Dibdin ...

Accession number
PML 152474
Creator
More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.
Published
London : Printed by William Bulmer at the Shakespeare Press, for William Miller, bookseller and publisher, and are to be sold at his shop, in Albemarle-Street, 1808.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Title vignette.
Large paper copy, containing the plate of More's family (following p. cxxviii), not issued with small paper copies.
Frontispiece (portrait of Sir Thomas More) signed, Pubd Feby. 1808 by W. Miller, London.
Plate of More's family, faces p. CXXVIII, and is signed "From the outline of Christian de Mechel".
"Printed from Alsop's edition of 1639."--p. clxxx.
Extra illustrated with portraits of the author.
Bookseller's label pasted on verso of first flyleaf.
Description
clxxx, 464, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill., front., port. ; 25 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Full red morocco, by C. Lewis, gilt back, panelled gilt sides and edges.
Classification
Department