[Rarebooks] FS: Thomas More's UTOPIA designed by Bruce Rogers and illustrated with 16th century woodcuts

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Sun Oct 31 17:20:25 EDT 2010


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MORE, Sir Thomas. UTOPIA. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Large 
octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and 
pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. 
Designed and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of 
sixteenth century woodcuts by Bruce Rogers including a superbly designed 
title page composed of printers' ornaments. Copy #875 of 1500 SIGNED by 
the designer on the title page. Spine a little foxed, as usual. Near 
Fine in a complete slipcase with the bottom section partly detached. 	 
$200.00

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