Utopia

by Kelmscott Press, Sir Thomas More

$13,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1893. First edition. First Kelmscott edition, one of 300 copies printed on paper; there were also eight on vellum. Octavo. Two woodcut borders, three- to ten-line initials, all engraved by William Harcourt after designs by Morris. Contents printed in red and black in Chaucer type, transcription of title-page on a6r in Troy type. Original limp vellum with yapp

• Binding: Leather

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