A most pleasant, fruitful, and witty work, of the best state of 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.
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
Category
Books
Date
1808
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 3078022
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,[2],clxxx,464p., [2] plates (1 folding) . 4to.. The folding plate is of the Holbein family portrait of More, the Lockey copy of which is at Nostell.. Provenance: Armorial bookplate on white vellum; lettered Charles Rugge Price.. Binding: Calf; gilt and blind rolled to form a border; spine gilt; red spine label: 'More's Utopia'.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Thomas Frognall Dibden (1776-1847) Ralph Robinson (fl.1551)