Utopia: or, The Happy Republic; A Philosophical Romance, in two books.
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1762.
Price:
$500.00
Second Foulis edition. xxiii, 160 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Modern half mottled calf, preserving an early leaf of indexing. Ownerhsip signatures of Richard Inkson, 1766, David Jones Junior; John Nixon, W.R. Whittingham. Some toning, marginal paper flaws. Very good. ESTC T50639; Gaskell, Foulis Press, 412. Provenance: W. R. Whittingham (“ex libris G.R.W. Jan 16 1828”) Maryland Diocesan Library (stamp); General Theological Seminary (bookplate).
Item #371131
More’s pioneering work, in the English translation of Bishop Gilbert Burnet (first printed in 1685); this is the second Foulis edition.
This copy with numerous American ownership signatures of Richard Inkson (including a full page calligraphic flourish on the blank following the introduction) and others, as well as of Bishop W.R. Whittingham, acquired when he was librarian of the General Theological Seminary. His books went to the Maryland Diocesan Library and then to the G.T.S.
Item #371131
More’s pioneering work, in the English translation of Bishop Gilbert Burnet (first printed in 1685); this is the second Foulis edition.
This copy with numerous American ownership signatures of Richard Inkson (including a full page calligraphic flourish on the blank following the introduction) and others, as well as of Bishop W.R. Whittingham, acquired when he was librarian of the General Theological Seminary. His books went to the Maryland Diocesan Library and then to the G.T.S.
