De optimo reipu. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, libellus vère aureus, nec minus salutaris quàm festiuus
By: clarissimi disertissiḿque viri Thomæ Mori inclytæ ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & Vicecomitis
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Publisher: excudebat Serruatius Sassenus; impensis viduæ Arnoldi Birkmanni.
Published: 1548
Place of publication: Lovanii
Language: lat
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: De optimo reipu. statu deque nova insula Vtopia.; De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia.
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.

Earlier editions with nearly identical titles published Basel, Mar. 1518 and Nov.-Dec. 1518.

Annotated by Desiderius Erasmus.

Signatures: A-L⁸ M⁴ (M4 recto blank)

Numerous errors in paging.

Errata (p. [1] at end)

Story set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on p. 30-31.

This edition includes the letters of Desiderius Erasmus to Johannes Froben, Guillaume Budé to Thomas Lupset, Pierre Gillis to Jerome Busleyden, 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, 1:153.

European Americana 548/25.

Gibson, R.W.  St. Thomas More, 4.

BM JCB Dutch and Flemish, 198.