UTOPIA ... translated into English by Raphe Robinson (1551), a new edition with copious notes ... by Thomas Dibdin.

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  • early red grained morocco, spines and fore-edges extra gilt
  • London: William Bulmer, Shakespeare Press, for William Miller, 1808
By MORE, Thomas, Sir
MORE (Thomas), Sir ... UTOPIA ... translated into English by Raphe Robinson (1551), a new edition with copious notes ... by Thomas Dibdin. London: William Bulmer, Shakespeare Press, for William Miller, 1808. Two volumes, portrait frontispiece + various head and tail pieces throughout the volume. 8vo, clxxx 141- [iv] 320pp; early red grained morocco, spines and fore-edges extra gilt. Corrections leaf bound behind 2nd title-page.
First edition of Dibdin's important version of More's Utopia, preceded only by his earlier Introduction to the Knowledge of Editions of the Classics (1802), which brought him under the notice of the second Earl Spencer, to whom he owed much assistance in his later bibliographical pursuits.

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Title

UTOPIA ... translated into English by Raphe Robinson (1551), a new edition with copious notes ... by Thomas Dibdin.

Author

MORE, Thomas, Sir

Binding

early red grained morocco, spines and fore-edges extra gilt

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Unknown

Publisher

William Bulmer, Shakespeare Press, for William Miller: London

Date

1808

Edition

First edition


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