A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.

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More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535, A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia , MCMXXIX [1929]

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Creator:: More, Thomas, Saint, 1478–1535
Title(s):: A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.
Additional Title(s):: Utopia. English.
Published/Created:: Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:: [4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
HX811.1516 E929+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1226190
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire and completed on the 20th day of March, 1929. The decorations are by Eric Gill. For this edition of Edward Arber's reprint of Abraham Veale's second edition (1556) has been used and carefully collated with the second edition in the Bodleian Library. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs & F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies."--Colophon.
BEIN If M81 +Rg929 Copy 1: No. 329. With red label, lettered in gold on spine.
BEIN If M81 +Rg929 Copy 2: No. 263. Lettered in gold on spine. Bookplate of Russell Cornell Leffingwell.
BEIN 2014 +470: Copy 375. Lettered in gold on spine.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 42 of 500. Bound in publisher's original blue-green buckram.
Subject Terms:: Consolation.
Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell), 1878-1960 -- Bookplate.
Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Utopias.
Form/Genre:: Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings -- 1929.
Contributors:: Gill, Eric, 1882-1940, illustrator.
Reed, A. W. (Arthur William), 1873-1957, editor.
Robinson, Ralph, 1521- translator.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.
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