Utopia Sir by Thomas, Signed (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. pp1-17. Off-print from Essays In Modern English Church History. Grey thin card covers with blue lettering on face. Reprinted in memory of Norman Sykes. Edited by G.V. Bennett and J. D. Walsh. Staple bound. Age toning to cover edges. Inside pages are clean. Gift inscription SIGNED by author on inside front cover dated 16.2.1966. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. #1312/1500, signed by Bruce Rogers who designed this book. The slipcase with the title printed on the spine is splitting on three edges, some discoloration as well. The boards are of decorated paper and vellum spine, spine has darker area near top, corners rubbed a tad. Endpapers and paper edges very lightly foxed. Includes the card with the details of the offering. Sir Thomas More's classic fictional and socio-political satire was first published in 1518. The book tells of a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011. Signed by the Designer.

Limited edition, number 607 of 1500, signed by the designer Bruce Rogers; large 8vo (26.5 x 17.5 cm); printed on handmade La Garde paper, publisher's ephemera laid-in, two decorative woodcut illustrations, internally clean; publisher's original quarter vellum over patterned paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, lightly soiled, small green ink marks to lower board, top edge gilt, others unopened; [x], 164, [2] pp. The most important philosophical text of the English Renaissance which coined the term 'utopia'. A limited edition copy of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, prepared and signed by celebrated designer Bruce Rogers and with an introduction by H.G. Wells. The text is after the first English translation by Ralph Robynson, edited by the publisher to provide readers with 'a maximum of pleasure and a minimum of difficulty', according to an accompanying newsletter.