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More, Sir Thomas
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- More, Sir Thomas
- Ornamenti Eximii, Lucubrationes, ab innumeris mendis repurgatae. Basel: apud Episcopium F, 1563
- Ink, paper and cow
8vo (6 1/4 x 4 in.; 160 x 105 mm). Printer's device on title-page, repeated on finale leaf, full-page woodcut depicting the island of Utopia on page 53, woodcut initials; underlining through all the copy, some manuscript annotations, eighteenth-century manuscript notes on last blank, author's name manuscript on the fore-edge, upper margin of a4 torn not affecting text, lower margin of a8 stained. eighteenth-century English calf; rubbed, joints fragile, lack on spine.
Provenance
Thomas (?) Thruston, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (signature on title page, c. 1700). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2001
Literature
STC German, 860; Adams M1 752; Gibson 74
Catalogue Note
First edition in Latin of Thomas More's collected works.