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UTOPIA
by MORE, Sir Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Go
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
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 and decorated with fleuron arrangements and reproductions of sixteenth century woodcuts by Bruce Rogers including a superbly designed title page composed of printers' ornaments. Copy #323 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page.
Synopsis
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.
Reviews
On Apr 2 2016, a reader 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019943
- Title
- UTOPIA
- Author
- MORE, Sir Thomas
- Illustrator
- Bruce Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight foxing to first few pages, many of which are unopened; spine a bit darkened, rubbing to covers with slight loss. Very Go
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- LEC, Bruce Rogers, Signed, Thomas More, H. G. Wells, Philosophy, Limited Editions Club, 16th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Bruce Rogers; 16th Century;
Terms of Sale
Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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- Colophon
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- Rubbing
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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