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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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. |
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Physical Description: | [2], xiv, 156, [4], 230, [2] p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folded) : port. ; 21 cm. (8vo) |