The Common-wealth of Utopia: Containing a Learned and pleasant Discourse of the best state of a Publike-Weale, as it is found in the Government of the Ile called Utopia

London: Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil: Sheares, at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1639. Very Good -. London: Printed by B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, and are to be sold by Wil: Sheares, at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1639. Fifth English-language Edition. 12mo. Extra engraved title page; [6], 287; 278-305pp., 277 mislabeled 177, 285 mislabeled 275, collated and complete with the common errors in pagination. Bound in blind-ruled contemporary calf. Boards worn and chipped along edges with exposure to extremities and shallow loss to spine ends; spine worn and leather brittle. Surface splitting along top third of front joint and front board starting but binding holding; toning to preliminaries; a few smudges.

A Good to Very Good copy of More's hugely influential social and political satire; the author's ongoing influence was described in Printing and the Mind of Man thus, "He is a saint to the Catholic, and a predecessor of Marx to the Communist. His manifesto is and will be required reading for both, and for all shades of opinion in between."

ESTC S112890; John Carter "Printing and the Mind of Man," 1967, #47 (1516 Edition).