[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
Description:
Colophon: [Printer’s mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenlvm mense decembri an M.D.XVIII., Each of the three parts has its own colophon, that of first part, the Utopia, being dated November, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and of Erasmus have also special title pages., Initials. Some title page borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., and Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors.
Signatures: A4(A1 blank)B8A-G8(G8 blank)C-G8H4., The first book (110p., sig. A-G) is made up of the remainder sheets of the 1650 edition, including the engraved illus. t.-p. and the preceding leaf of "Authoris ... emblema"; the text of p. 20-21 is in the original state., and The t.p. of book 1 bears on the reverse the signature "Tho: ffrance 1652"; hence the book was evidently in his hands before the publication of book 2 and the general t.-p. and prefatory matter. Bookplate of John Cawley of Topsham. Bookplate of Frank Brewer Bemis. Bookplate of Chauncey Brewster Tinker.
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Crips, and Lodowick LLoyd, next to the Castle in Cornhill, and in Popes-Head Alley,
Subject (Name):
Bemis, Frank Brewer,--1861-1935--Bookplate., Cawley, John,--of Topsham--Bookplate., and Tinker, Chauncey Brewster,--1876-1963--Bookplate