Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 210

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MORE, THOMAS, Sir. The Common Wealth of Utopia. [6], 305 [i. e., 315] pages, including engraved additional title with the author's portrait by William Marshall. 12mo, 137x89 mm, 18th-century calf, rebacked; some headlines shaved, light marginal dampstaining in middle volume. Unidentified armorial bookplate on front pastedown; faded old signature on title; full-page ownership inscription of Robert Potter dated 1698 on otherwise blank page [106]. London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet for Wil. Sheares, 1639

Additional Details

Fifth edition of the 1551 translation, the first into English. Gibson 29; STC 18098.