The Kaweah Cooperative Colony, established in 1886 and inspired by Edward Bellamys Looking Backward, was a short-lived utopian community organized in Tulare County, California.
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Manuscript annotations on verso describing printing details.
The Kaweah Cooperative Colony, established in 1886 and inspired by Edward Bellamys Looking Backward, was a short-lived utopian community organized in Tulare County, California.
Colophon: [Printer's mark] Basileae apvd Io. Frobenivm mense martio an. MDXVIII., Irregularities in paging: 8 pages between p. 162 and p. 167 counted in numbering as 4 numbered leaves; several typographical errors., Initials. Title-borders and the illustrations on p. [12] and p. [25] are from designs by Ambrosius Holbein., Signatures: a-s4, t-u6, x-z4, A-I4, K6, L-T4, V6., and Each of the three parts has its own colophon, dated March, 1518. The "Epigrammata" of More and Erasmus have also special title-pages.
[Utopia], De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, and De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia
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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.
BEIN If M81 rh550: Leaves 29 and 102 misnumbered 26 and 103 respectively. Initials; tail pieces. Bookplate of Thomas Brooke., "Auec priuilege.", Signatures: *8, A-O8 (C4 misnumbered D4)., and First edition of More's Utopia in French. Translated by J. Le Blond.
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au premier pillier de la grand'Salle on la Bou-tique de Charles l'Angelier deuant la Chappel le de Messieurs les Presidens
Utopia and Libellus vere aureus nec minvs salvtaris qvam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia
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BEIN If M81 r516: Autograph: Thomas Godwyn; J. Hilton. Inscription: Sum Tunstalli. From the library of John Loveday, and the Loveday family from 1736-1940. Contemporary blindstamped Flemish binding, clasps wanting. No. 1 of 7 works bound together., Signatures: pi⁴ a-l⁴ m⁶., Printer and date of printing from Gibson., and Printer's device of Thierry Martens on p. [108].