Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-Libris with usual library matter and stamps to upper, lower, and outer edges of text. Slight wear on all edges of text. Otherwise VG. 626 and 682 pages. (Heavy item, will require additional shipping fee) pp.
Hardcover, no dust jacket. Reproduced from 1852 edition. Both volumes slight wear on all edges of text. Volume I limited markings. Otherwise VG. 626 and 682 pages. (Heavy item, will require additional shipping fees) pp.
Published by Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil: Sheares, at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, London, 1639
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good -. London: Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil: Sheares, at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1639. Fifth English-language Edition. 12mo. Extra engraved title page; [6], 287; 278-305pp., 277 mislabeled 177, 285 mislabeled 275, collated and complete with the common errors in pagination. Bound in blind-ruled contemporary calf. Boards worn and chipped along edges with exposure to extremities and shallow loss to spine ends; spine worn and leather brittle. Surface splitting along top third of front joint and front board starting but binding holding; toning to preliminaries; a few smudges. Housed in custom clamshell box. A Good to Very Good copy of More's hugely influential social and political satire; the author's ongoing influence was described in Printing and the Mind of Man thus, "He is a saint to the Catholic, and a predecessor of Marx to the Communist. His manifesto is and will be required reading for both, and for all shades of opinion in between." ESTC S112890; John Carter "Printing and the Mind of Man," 1967, #47 (1516 Edition).