Utopia.

£150 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The most important philosophical text of the English Renaissance which coined the term 'utopia'. A limited edition copy of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, prepared and signed by celebrated designer Bruce Rogers and with an introduction by H.G. Wells. The text is after the first English translation by Ralph Robynson, edited by the publisher to provide readers with 'a maximum of pleasure and a minimum of difficulty', according to an accompanying newsletter. Limited edition, number 607 of 1500, signed by the designer Bruce Rogers; large 8vo (26.5 x 17.5 cm); printed on handmade La Garde paper, publisher's ephemera laid-in, two decorative woodcut illustrations, internally clean; publisher's original quarter vellum over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, lightly soiled, small green ink marks to lower board, top edge gilt, others unopened; [x], 164, [2] pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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