Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ 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 æditu[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 Budæi ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc sæculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima ..
Contributors: Lupset, Thomas, 1495?-1530; Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536; Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540
Publisher: Gilles de Gourmont
Published: 1517
Place of publication: Paris]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: Ad lectorum. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ Mori.; Opusculum illud vere aureum Thomae Mori.
Work titles: Utopia
Notes: Originally published under title: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia. Louvain, 1516.

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

Date of publication from Gibson and Alden.

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.

Edited by Thomas Lupset.

Signatures: A-C⁸ D⁴ E-Q⁸ R² (B8 verso blank)

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

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

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.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:68.

European Americana 517/6.

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

BM STC French, 1470-1600, 319.

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased at Benzon sale in London.