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
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3078023
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,[2],clxxx,464p., [2] plates (1 folding) ; 4to. Includes front (Portrait of More) and 1 plate at p. cxxviii (Holbein family portrait), and an errara leaf after p. clxxx. Provenance: Pen inscription on first flyleaf: Cremer Cremer (Rev. Cremer Cremer [1795-1867]). Binding: Nineteenth-century polished calf over boards, two gilt fillets and gilt roll on front cover, gilt spine with five raised bands, sewn on three cords, lettered in gilt: More's Utopia. Marbled edges. Bookshoe.
Makers and roles
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Thomas Frognall Dibden (1776-1847) Ralph Robinson (fl.1551)