Thomas; Ralph ROBINSON ( translator ). Utopia with Roper’s Life of More and Some of His Letters.

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£275 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

The Chiswick Press Utopia MORE, Thomas; Ralph ROBINSON ( translator ). Utopia with Roper’s Life of More and Some of His Letters. London: Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons. 1903. Folio. Publisher’s cream quarter cloth with brown cloth sides, printed labels to spine and upper board, fore- and tail-edges uncut, two spare printed labels tipped in at end; pp. xi, [1 (blank)], 265, [1 (colophon)]; text printed in red and black on paper watermarked ‘Chiswick Press’, title within elaborate woodcut border signed W.L. Bruckman, frontispiece incorporating reproduction of Holbein’s portrait of More with tissue guard, 5- and 8-line woodcut initials, large woodcut vignettes to pp. 8 and 17 after Ambrose Holbein; some soiling and rubbing to boards, splitting to cloth at upper joint; sporadic light foxing throughout, heavier to endpapers and first and final leaves, p. 39 browned; but a very good, sound copy. No. 177 of 220 copies of the handsome Chiswick Press edition of the first English translation (1551) of More’s Utopia , illustrated with woodcuts after those of Ambrosius Holbein, brother of Hans Holbein the Younger, to the 1518 Basel edition. Utopia ‘inveighs against the new statesmanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education’ ( Printing and the Mind of Man ). This edition reproduces the Utopian alphabet and a stanza in the Utopia

• Binding: Hardcover

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