A fruteful, and pleasaunt worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia:

by: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535

Publication date: 1551
Topics: Utopias
Publisher: Imprinted at London : by [S. Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, dwelling in Pauls churcheyarde at the sygne of the Lambe.
Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana; globallibraries
Contributor: John Carter Brown Library
Language: English
Item Size: 569.2M

[144] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Translation, by Ralph Robinson, of: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia. Louvain, 1516

Printer from STC

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁸ A⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴ ([Maltese cross] 1 verso, A4 verso, S4 verso blank)

Story set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on leaves [15] verso and [16] recto

This edition includes the letter of Thomas More to Pierre Gillis

Notes

No copyright, table of contents, chapters, pagination. Cropping of text may occur due to narrow margins.

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References: Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:165; European Americana 551/31; STC (2nd ed.) 18094; Gibson, R.W. St. Thomas More, 25
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