Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomae Mori no[n] min[us] vtile q[uam] elega[n]s de optimo reipublic[a]e statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia, iam iteru[m], sed multo correcti[us] q[uam] pri[us], hac enchiridij forma vt vides multo[rum] tu[m] senatoru[m] tu[m] alioru[m] grauissimoru[m] viro[rum] suasu aeditu[m], quod sane tibi [a]edisce[n]dum no[n] modo in manib[us] quotidie habendu[m] ce[n]seo
Subtitle: Cui quide[m] ab innumeris me[n]dis vndequaq[ue] purgatio p[rae]ter Erasmi annotatio[n]es ac Budaei ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc saeculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima
Contributors: Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540; Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536; Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530; Gourmont, Gilles de, active 1505-1540, printer
Publisher: Gilles de Gourmont
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Utopias; Early works to 1800
Work titles: Utopia
Notes: Date of publication from Gibson and Alden.

Edited by Thomas Lupset.

Errata (leaves ci [i.e. cix] verso-cv [i.e.cx] recto).

Leaf lx misnumb.: "lii"; leaves cix-cx misnumb.: "ci", "cv."

Prefatory matter has dates of 31 July [1516] (leaf [7] verso), 1 Nov. 1516 (leaf [10] recto) and 1 Dec. [1516] (leaf [12] recto); text on leaf ci recto [i.e. cix] has date 1516.

Printer from device on verso of leaf cv [i.e. cx], signed: Gilles de Gourmont.

Story set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on leaf iii.

This edition includes the letters of Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset, Pierre Gillis to Jerome Busleyden, Joannes Paludanus to Pierre Gillis, Thomas More to Pierre Gillis and Jerome Busleyden to Thomas More.

Originally published under title: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia. Louvain, 1516.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 517/6

BM STC French, 1470-1600, 319

Gibson, R.W. St. Thomas More, 2