• Publication: La Description de l'Isle d'UtopiePublication Record # 411839
• Author: Sir Thomas More
• Date: 1550-00-00
• Publisher: Charles l'Angelier
• Pages: [14]+105+[15]
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • First French edition. Translated by Jean le Blond. "The translator of both the text and Budé's introductory letter was Jean le Blond d'Evreux, seigneur de Branville, his name being mentioned twice in the book. The translation (from the Latin original) precedes the English edition by a year. According to Peggram, the French translation was executed with much more care and elegance than the English, and devoted more attention to correct bibliographical detail." -- Christie's Auction House.
  • Woodcut devices on title and final leaf, 12 woodcuts, woodcut initials. Nine of the woodcut text illustrations were made especially for this edition including a small woodcut of the author repeated three times.
  • Data from Christie's Auction House.
  • Additional data from WorldCat.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 490512318 24617634

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie • novel by Sir Thomas More (trans. of Utopia 1516)
• Introduction (La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie) • essay by
  Guillaume Budé^?Guillaume Bude