More, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, UK, 1929.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Blue cloth binding with burgundy leather backstrip label rubbed at extremities; backstrip sunfaded to brown, label chipped; bookplate on front paste-down; gift inscription inked on front free endpaper; leaf edges browned; gilt edges dulled. No dust jacket.; Number 227 of 500 Limited Edition. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" ; 137 pages

Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.

Sir Thomas More. Frutefull Pleasaunt, and Wittie Worke, of the Beste State of a Publique Weale, & of Newe Yle, Called Utopia. The Golden Cockerel Press, 1929.

Price: US$128.33 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: A lot of dirty marks, fading and wear on cover. Also a few dirty marks on outer edges of pages but content is fine.

Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom

MORE, Sir Thomas; RONYNSON, Raphe (trans.); REED, A. W. (ed.); GILL, Eric (illus.). A Fruteful Pleasaunt, and Wittie Worke, of the beste state of a publique weale, & of the newe yle, called Utopia. The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, 1929.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: xiii, 137 p. 28 cm. Decorations by Eric Gill, along with Gill's interpretation of the Utopian alphabet. Grey cloth with gilt press device. Top edge gilt. Spine faded, red mark on front. Former owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Stains on pp. 2-3. In 1516 Thomas More published this work entitled Utopia in which he describes his ideal perfect world.This first and only edition by the Golden Cockerel Press contains wonderful engraved titles with illustrated initials by Eric Gill, beautifully printed on English handmade paper. At rear is Gill's version of the Utopian alphabet or "Utopiensium alphabetum" because who wouldn't want to write in Utopian? 500 numbered copies of which this is no. 126.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada