293 - 1631.

1631. BOOK. (HUMANITIES). MORI, THOMAE: UTOPIA A MENDIS VINDICATA. Amsterdam: Published by Ioannem Ianssonium, 1631. 16mo. 263 pp. Engraved frontispiece. A small missing section of paper on pp. 81–82 affecting several lines of text. Some cross-outs, such as the name of Erasmus in the dedication. Bound in contemporary parchment. Ex-libris. A masterpiece by the humanist Thomas More, born in London in 1478, in which he envisions an ideal city and society. He served as Chancellor of England and was beheaded by order of Henry VIII in 1535.