[Rarebooks] For Sale: More's UTOPIA, limited edition

[Norman Kane]

MORE, SIR THOMAS.   UTOPIA: WRITTEN IN LATINE BY SYR THOMAS MORE, 
KNYGHT, AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLYSHE BY RAPHE ROBYNSON: ANNO 
M.CCCC.LI.  WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND A BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY 
INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. T. F. DIBDIN . . .  FROM SIR H. ELLIS'S 
COPY, WITH ADDITIONAL NOTES & CORRECTIONS.   Boston, Lincolnshire: 
Robert Roberts, Strait Bar-Gate, 1878.  #426 of 475 copies signed by 
Roberts.  Frontispiece & double-page plate (both lightly stained) & 
other illustrations and decorations. Publisher's full
gilt-stamped vellum, 8 1/2  X 5 1/2 inches, very slightly marked & a 
little bowed, offset on limitation page & opposite blank, all edges 
yellow, [2], 472pp.  Signed inscription by Edmond Warre, headmaster & 
provost of Eton (see DNB) to Reginald Lucas, with Lucas's bookplate, 
Eton, 1884.  A rather elegant and carefully edited 
edition.  $110.00         (Trade Discount 10 %)


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