[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of Arthur Cayley's translation of "Utopia" London: 1808

[Kenneth Karmiole]

More, Sir Thomas. MEMOIRS OF SIR THOMAS MORE, WITH A NEW TRANSLATION OF HIS UTOPIA, HIS HISTORY OF KING RICHARD III, AND HIS LATIN POEMS. By Arthur Cayley, the Younger. In Two Volumes. London: Cadell and Davis. 1808. First edition of the Cayley translation. Lg. 4to. 2 vols. in 1. viii,342;(4),356pp. Each vol. with a copper engraved frontispiece portrait. 19th c. half green morocco over marbled boards, ornately gilt decorated & lettered spine. Hinges lightly rubbed. T.e.g. Some occasional foxing. Engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Webster on front pastedown. Ownership signature of Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke (1758-1815) at head of both title pages. Uncommon.    $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Arthur Cayley (1776-1848) was the third translator of UTOPIA. Vol. II, pp. 1-148. The translations of More's Latin poems are by Archdeacon Frances Wrangham (1769-1842).

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