De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quám festiuus
By: clarissimi disertissimíq[ue] uiri Thomae Mori inclytæ ciuitatis Londinensis ciuis & Vicecomitis.  Epigrammata / clarissimi disertissimíq[ue] uiri Thomae Mori, pleraq[ue] è Græcis uersa.  Epigrammata. / Des. Erasmi Roterodami
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
Publisher: Apud Ioannem Frobenium
Published: 1518
Place of publication: Apud inclytam Basileam
Language: lat
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Utopias
Other titles: De optimo reip. statu, deque noua insula Vtopia.; De optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia.
Work titles: Utopia
Notes: A collection of three works; the "Epigrammata" of both More  and Erasmus have special title pages, with the title surrounded by ornamental borders, but with continuous signatures and paging; all three works have separate colophons.

More's "Utopia" originally published under title: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia. Louvain, 1516.

Earlier edition with same title published Basel, Mar. 1518.

"Utopia" annotated by Desiderius Erasmus; More's "Epigrammata" edited by Beatus Bildius.

Title page surrounded by ornamental border, signed: Hans Holb.

Printer and dates of publication from colophons.

Colophon of pt. [1] ("Utopia") (leaf [1] verso) dated: mense Novembri. M. D. XVIII.; colophons of pts. [2-3] (More's and Erasmus' "Epigrammata" (p. [272]; p. [1] at end) each dated: mense Decembri An. M. D. XVIII. Printer in colophon pt. [3] (p. [1] at end) as: Apud Io. Frobenium.

Half title p. [17]: Thomas Morus Petro Aegidio s.d., surrounded by ornamental border, signed: Hans Holb.

Signatures: a-s⁴ t-u⁶ x-z⁴ A-I⁴ K⁶ L-T⁴ V⁶

Numerous errors in paging. Page 11 numbered (Gibson reports p. 11 unnumbered; a different state or error?)

Headpiece on p. [25] illustrates the author, Thomas More, together with three other persons in landscape (design by Hans Holbein)

Story of "Utopia" set in the New World, with references to Vespucci and his voyages on p. 28-29.

This edition of "Utopia" 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.

JCB Lib. cat., additions 1471-1700, 4.

Alden, J.E.  European Americana, 518/8.

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

BM STC German, 1465-1600, 860.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: lacks pts. [2-3], p. [165]-355, [1] p. (i.e., the "Epigrammata" of More and Erasmus)

John Carter Brown Library copy purchased from Nijhoff.