Memoirs of the life of Sir Thomas More, lord high chancellor of England, in the reign of Henry VIII : to which is added, his History of Utopia, translated into English, describing the most perfect state of a common-wealth, in the manners, religion, and polity, of that island : with notes historical and explanatory /

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Main Author: Warner, Ferdinando, 1703-1768
Corporate Author: Leonard William Longstaff Saint Thomas More Collection
Other Authors: More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535, Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715, Vertue, George, 1684-1756, Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: London : Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, over-against Grey's-Inn Gate, Holbourn : and J. Payne, at Pope's-Head, in Pater-noster Row, 1758.
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Item Description:Signatures: [A]⁸ B-L⁸ ²B-P⁸ Q⁴.
Last leaf blank.
Engravings: folding frontispiece portrait of More, engraved by T. Cook; portrait of Erasmus engraved by G. Vertue after H. Holbein; head-piece at head of dedication.
The Utopia has separate half-title following page 156 of Warner's Memoirs.
Gilbert Burnet's translation of the Utopia. "I have presumed to make a few slight alterations in the turn of expression and in single words, in order to make it more modern; but such as shew no defect or error in the Bishop as translator"--Advertisement preceding Utopia.
Physical Description:[2], xiv, 156, [4], 230, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : port. ; 21 cm. (8vo)