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More, Sir Thomas
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- More, Sir Thomas
- Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimique viri Thomae Mori Britanni, pleraque e graecis versa. Basel, Froben, December 1518
- Ink, paper and cow
4to (6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 190 x 145 mm). Title within a woodcut border by Urs Graf, woodcut initials, woodcut device on verso of final leaf; contemporary underlining. Contemporary vellum, endpapers renewed.
Provenance
Fedirici Guinety (?; signature on title page) — Library of St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort-Augustus, Scotland (book-plate) — unidentified bookplate "poetica." acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2007
Literature
Fairfax Murray, German, 304; VD16 M6300
Catalogue Note
Second edition of More's epigrams, published as part of the fourth edition of More's Utopia. According to Fairfax Murray the three parts are often found separately. The epigrams were first printed in Froben's edition of Utopia of March 1518, and then published separately for the first time by Froben in 1520.