Utopia:, or, The happy republic; : a philosophical romance, in two books. : Book I. Containing preliminary discourses on the happiest state of a commonwealth. : Book II. Containing a description of the island of Utopia, the towns, magistrates, mechanick trades, and manner of life of the Utopians, their traffick, travelling, slaves, marriages, military discipline, religions. /
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| Language: | English Latin |
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Printed by Robert Foulis, and sold by him there; and, at Edinburgh, by Mess. Hamilton and Balfour booksellers.,
M DCC XLIII. [1743]
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| Item Description: | Translation, by Gilbert Burnet, of More's Utopia. First English edition published under title: A fruteful, and pleasaunt worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia. London, 1551. Burnet's translation originally published under title: Utopia. London, 1684. Signatures: a-c⁴ A-R⁴ S². Leaf A2 is missigned "B2." Page 55 misnumbered 57. With a mezzotint frontispiece portrait of the author by Samuel Taylor after the portait by Holbein. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, [1], 139, [1] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : port. (metal cut) ; 18 cm (8vo) |
| Place of Publication: | Scotland -- Glasgow. Scotland -- Edinburgh. |