UTOPIA: Containing an Impartial History. of That Island. Translated Into English by Gilbert Burnet. To This Edition Is Added, a Short Account of Sir Thomas More's Life and Trial. The Whole Revis'd, Corrected and Greatly Improv'd by Thomas Williamson.
by More, Thomas
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Oxford: J. Newbery, 1751. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. xxiv (i.e. xxxiv), viii, pp. 168 + 4 leaves of ads at rear. Old calf, crudely repaired. Formerly in the collection of the College of New Rochelle Library with perforated stamp to title and bookplate. One ownership signature from 1806 and another from 1919 on front flyleaf. House in a very handsome burgundy clamshell box with spine label lettered in gilt. Text is in very good or better condition. Sold as is.
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Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of good families to be so established together in a relation of patron and client.
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- UTOPIA: Containing an Impartial History. of That Island. Translated Into English by Gilbert Burnet. To This Edition Is Added, a Short Account of Sir Thomas More's Life and Trial. The Whole Revis'd, Corrected and Greatly Improv'd by Thomas Williamson.
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- More, Thomas
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- J. Newbery
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1751
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