More, Thomas (1478-1535) De Optimo Reip. Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libellus Vere...
More, Thomas (1478-1535)
De Optimo Reip. Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libellus Vere Aureus.
Basel: Froben, 1518.
Third edition, the first printed by Froben, edited by Erasmus (d. 1536) a4, b1, b4, (lacking preliminary text leaves b2 & b3), c-s4, t-u6, x-z4, A-I4, K6; first appearance in print of More's Epigrams; two titles printed within woodcut title page compartments, two colophons with large woodcut devices, lacking leaves with the woodcut of the eponymous island of the title and the Utopian alphabet (provided in good photocopy facsimile); resewn and rebacked, in parchment boards with yapp edges, contents generally good, some early marginalia and underlining, edges trimmed cropping some notes, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Adams M-1757; PMM 47 (1516 edition).
Additional Images
Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
More, Thomas (1478-1535)
De Optimo Reip. Statu, deque Nova Insula Utopia, Libellus Vere Aureus.
Basel: Froben, 1518.
Third edition, the first printed by Froben, edited by Erasmus (d. 1536) a4, b1, b4, (lacking preliminary text leaves b2 & b3), c-s4, t-u6, x-z4, A-I4, K6; first appearance in print of More's Epigrams; two titles printed within woodcut title page compartments, two colophons with large woodcut devices, lacking leaves with the woodcut of the eponymous island of the title and the Utopian alphabet (provided in good photocopy facsimile); resewn and rebacked, in parchment boards with yapp edges, contents generally good, some early marginalia and underlining, edges trimmed cropping some notes, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Adams M-1757; PMM 47 (1516 edition).
Additional Images
Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
