Utopia
by More, Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client.
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On Apr 2, 2016, Anonymous said
Utopia was a beautiful concept of a life that revolved around peace and a society without violence. It would be a type of redirection in the way, we bring up our young from infancy. More who at one time was King Henry VIII's very close friend, fell from his grace by not swearing the vow that recognized Henry as the Head of the Church of England (which consequently excommunicated England from Rome) and also did not agree with the divorce/annulment from Catherine of Aragon so he could marry Anne Boleyn & name her queen (all this was included in the vow). He explained to Henry that he'd always love him as a friend, and never speak against him publicly, but as a Catholic, even if he said the words but kept the truth in his heart it would still be a lie. Out of pride and anger that Henry could not bend him to his will he finally had More beheaded. This book was a fantasy world to Henry, one he referred to as a joke. He believed in making a spectacle of wrong doers while Thomas had a more peaceful idea. There are many who still feel a Utopian (which means paradise) society could be had including myself. It would take hundreds of years more work now though than it would have then. And even if we got close, it would never be completely Utopian, human nature wouldn't allow it. But enjoying it 75% of the time would truly be a wonderful world.
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Utopia.
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London: Printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons,, 1903. First Chiswick Press edition, number 84 of 220 copies, an attractive edition. More's celebrated description of an ideal commonwealth, a "quintessential humanist dialogue" (ODNB), was first published in Louvain in 1516. Influenced by Plato's Republic, St Augustine's De civitate dei, Vespucci's accounts of the New World, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia: Or the Happy Republic; A Philosophical Romance, In Two Books. Book I. Containing Preliminary Discourses On The Happiest State Of a Commonwealth. Book II. Containing a Description of the Island of Utopia, the Towns, Magistrates, Mechanick Trades, and Manner of Life of The Utopians, their Traffick, Travelling, Slaves, Marriages, Military Discipline, Religions.
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Description: xxiii,[1],139,[1]pp. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf. Mezzotint portrait (by Taylor after Holbein). Spine, fore-tips and joints slightly rubbed, refreshed calf spine label bookplate and two ownership inscriptions (one early, on verso of portrait), a couple of marginal chips to the slightly trimmed frontis (not affecting image), Latin marginalia in lower margin of P1, some tanning but no foxing; a very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia: written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Trans. into English, by Gilbert Burney, late Bishop of Sarum. To this edition is added, a short acct of Sir Thomas More's Life and his Trial
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Dublin: Printed by R. Reilly, for G. Ewing, and W. Smith, booksellers, in Dame-street, 1737. Two bookplates of Portland, Maine antiquarian bookseller and Irish books collector Francis O'Brien on front paste-down. Ink ownership inscription dated. 16mo, half recent calf and original marbled paper boards, raised bands, black leather lettering-piece with gilt title at spine. xxviii, 140 pp. Item Price
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UTOPIA
by MORE, Sir Thomas
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Spine a little foxed, as usual. Near Fine in a complete slipcase with the bottom section partly detached. Bruce Rogers. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Designed and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of sixteenth… Read more about this item Item Price
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Glasgow: printed by Robert Foulis, and sold by him there; and, at Edinburgh, by Mess. Hamilton and Balfour Booksellers,, 1743. First Foulis edition of More's celebrated description of an ideal commonwealth, a "quintessential humanist dialogue" (ODNB), first published in Louvain in 1516. This edition used Bishop Burnet's translation, first published in 1685. The Foulis Press was renowned for the… Read more about this item Item Price
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UTOPIA
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934. Hardcover. Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Bruce Rogers. Large octavo (6-5/8" x 10-1/8") bound in half vellum, gold-stamped, and pattern-paper sides by Frederic Warde. Introduction by H. G. Wells. Designed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia
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Berkshire, UK: Golden Cockerel Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth binding with burgundy leather backstrip label rubbed at extremities; backstrip sunfaded to brown, label chipped; bookplate on front paste-down; gift inscription inked on front free endpaper; leaf edges browned; gilt edges dulled. No dust jacket.; Number 227 of 500 Limited… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: The Limited Editions Club. Fine. 1935. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. #114 of 1500 copies signed by Bruce Rogers. A fine copy with no defects in a VG+ original slipcase. Introduction by HG Wells and designed and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of sixteenth-century woodcuts by Bruce Rogers. Printed at The Printed House of… Read more about this item Item Price
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UTOPIA: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Knyght, and translated into English by Ralphe Robinson: Anno M.CCCCC.LI. With Copious Notes and a Biographical and Literary Introduction by the Rev. T.F. Dibdin, F.S.A. Printed From Sir H. Ellis’s Copy, With Additional Notes and Corrections.
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Boston: Robert Roberts, 1878. Hardcover. Good+. One of 100 copies only, this being one of thirty "largest" copies, the only thirty on "this paper" according to the publisher's, Robert Roberts, handwritten declaration to verso of half-title. 4to, in the publisher’s original parchment over stiff paper boards with yapp edges, the spine with raised bands and a printed paper… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Printed for Richard Chiswell, and to be sold by George Powell over against Lincoln-Inn-Gate in Chancery-Lane, 1685. Hardcover. 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"), later mottled calf by Bayntun, raised bands, gilt morocco spine lettering piece at spine, dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Lacking half-title. [22], 206 pp., 2 pp. manuscript index. CONDITION: Good, spine rubbed with superficial cracks, spine edges rubbed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England: Translated into English.
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London, Printed for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1684. . First edition of the Burnet translation; small 8vo (18.5 x 12 cm); old MS price in pen to front free endpaper recto, woodcut headpieces; contemporary mottled calf ruled in blind, expertly rebacked to style, contrasting red morocco title-piece to spine, internally clean, very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia
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Utopia (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
by Sir Thomas More
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UTOPIA
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UTOPIA, Cranbrook Press, 1902, first edition thus, embossed stamp of famed Detroit bookstore owner, Milton Marwil, on the title page, light scratch to the rear cover, else a vg+ copy in 3/4 brown paper boards with vellum spine and corner tips. #84/210 copies of this fine press book printed by hand upon hand made paper by George Booth,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia
by Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas More
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New York: Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1935. Hardcover. A reprint of the 1935 Limited Editions Club edition. Written in latin by Sir Thomas More and in English by Ralph Robynson. Decorative paper over boards with cloth spine and gilt stamped lettering. A near fine book. Some browning of the cream colored spine and two small damp spots… Read more about this item Item Price
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Utopia: Vols. I and II
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London: William Miller, 1808. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Acceptable condition. Two-volume set. With notes and a biographical and literary introduction by The Rev. T.F. Dibdin. Aged and shelf-worn boards with numerous bumps, marks, stains and chips. Spines are worn, with considerable wear, bumping and nicking at ends; three-centimetre on right side of spine foot of Vol. I. Spine of Vol.… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: for Richard Chiswell,, 1684. Utopia for the North Atlantic Enlightenment First edition of Gilbert Burnet's translation, the second translation into English following Raphe Robinson's in 1556. "Burnet's edition quickly became the definitive version of the text" (Withington, p. 307). Utopia, first published in Latin in 1516, sets out an ideal political society, a representative democracy governed by philosophically… Read more about this item Item Price
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