{"product_id":"more-thomas-ralph-robinson-translator-utopia-with-roper-s-life-of-more-and-some-of-his-letters","title":"MORE, Thomas; Ralph ROBINSON ( translator ). Utopia with Roper’s Life of More and Some of His Letters.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eThe Chiswick Press \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMORE, Thomas; Ralph ROBINSON (\u003ci\u003etranslator\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Utopia with Roper’s Life of More and Some of His Letters. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons.\u003c\/i\u003e 1903.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFolio. Publisher’s cream quarter cloth with brown cloth sides, printed labels to spine and upper board, fore- and tail-edges uncut, two spare printed labels tipped in at end; pp. xi, [1 (blank)], 265, [1 (colophon)]; text printed in red and black on paper watermarked ‘Chiswick Press’, title within elaborate woodcut border signed W.L. Bruckman, frontispiece incorporating reproduction of Holbein’s portrait of More with tissue guard, 5- and 8-line woodcut initials, large woodcut vignettes to pp. 8 and 17 after Ambrose Holbein; some soiling and rubbing to boards, splitting to cloth at upper joint; sporadic light foxing throughout, heavier to endpapers and first and final leaves, p. 39 browned; but a very good, sound copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo. 177 of 220 copies of the handsome Chiswick Press edition of the first English translation (1551) of More’s \u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e, illustrated with woodcuts after those of Ambrosius Holbein, brother of Hans Holbein the Younger, to the 1518 Basel edition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUtopia\u003c\/i\u003e ‘inveighs against the new statesmanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education’ (\u003ci\u003ePrinting and the Mind of Man\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition reproduces the Utopian alphabet and a stanza in the Utopian language from the 1518 edition (p. 151) and includes a life of More by William Roper, his son-in-law, as well as several of his letters, many to his daughter Margaret. A further 210 copies were privately printed for distribution in New York by the Chiswick Press for the Scott-Thaw Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2125784\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64039896482169,"sku":"2125784","price":275.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2125784a.jpg?v=1784817056","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/more-thomas-ralph-robinson-translator-utopia-with-roper-s-life-of-more-and-some-of-his-letters","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}