[Rarebooks] FS: Thomas More's UTOPIA Designed by Bruce Rogers

[Charles Agvent]

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. Of a total of 1500 copies 
SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered 
(in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the 
Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. Spine a 
little soiled, very short tear to paper at the bottom of the front 
cover; tear to final blank page. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase specially 
made for the publisher for this copy and differing from the original 
slipcase. (#016514)        $225.00

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