A fruteful, and pleasaunt worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Vtopia
By: written in Latine by Syr Thomas More knyght, ; and translated into Englyshe by Raphe Robynson citizein and goldsmythe of London, at the procurement, and earnest request of George Tadlowe citizein & haberdassher of thesame citie
Contributors: Robinson, Ralph, 1521-
Publisher: by [S. Mierdman for] Abraham Vele, dwelling in Pauls churcheyarde at the sygne of the Lambe.
Published: 1551
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Utopias
Work titles: Utopia
Notes: Translation, by Ralph Robinson, of: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia. Louvain, 1516.

Printer from STC.

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁸ A⁴ B-R⁸ S⁴ ([Maltese cross] 1 verso, A4 verso, S4 verso blank)

Story set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on leaves [15] verso and [16] recto.

This edition includes the letter of Thomas More to Pierre Gillis.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1:165.

European Americana 551/31.

STC (2nd ed.) 18094.

Gibson, R.W.  St. Thomas More, 25.