Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535
Title:
A frutefull pleasaunt, and wittie worke of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the new yle, called Utopia / written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Syr Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson ... at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe ... ; and now edited by A.W. Reed.
Alternate Title(s):
Utopia. English.
Published / Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXIX [1929]
Physical Description:
[4], iii-xiii, [1], 137, [3] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire and completed on the 20th day of March, 1929. The decorations are by Eric Gill. For this edition of Edward Arber's reprint of Abraham Veale's second edition (1556) has been used and carefully collated with the second edition in the Bodleian Library. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs & F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies."--Colophon.
Subject Terms:
Utopias. | Consolation. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Leffingwell, R. C. (Russell Cornell), 1878–1960 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence. | Wood engravings -- 1929.
Contributors:
Gill, Eric, 1882–1940, illustrator. | Reed, A. W. (Arthur William), 1873–1957, editor. | Robinson, Ralph, 1521– translator. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Gibbings, Robert, 1889–1958, printer.