Shelfmark
Lx.3.47
Author
More, Thomas (), 1478 - 1535 Sir Saint,
Uniform title
[Utopia. English]
Title
A frutefull, pleasaunt, and wittie worke, of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More Knyght; and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, sometime fellow of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, citizein and goldsmythe of London, at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe citezein and haberdassher of the same citie; and now edited by A. W. Reed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX [1929].
Physical description
xiv, 138, [2]p : ill. (engravings) ; 27cm.
Note
Decorations by Eric Gill.
Note
Printed by Robert Gibbings.
Note
Paper has vertical chain lines ; watermarked ; deckled edges.
Note
Publisher's blue buckram binding with device stamped in gold on front board and gold lettering on red leather title label on spine.
Note
ECL copy: No. 438 of 500 copies.
Note
Ms. previous shelfmarks in pencil.
Provenance
Booklabel and stamp of Eton College Library.
Subject
Utopias in literature.
Added entry--name
Gibbings, Robert, 1889 - 1958 printer.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Gill, Eric, 1882 - 1940 engraver.
Added entry--name
Reed, A. W., 1873 - 1957 (Arthur William) ed.
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Added entry--place
England Berkshire Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Language code
eng lat
Identifier
B24891