Robinson ralph more thomas (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Reissue Edition; First Printing. Barnes & Noble Classics; 5.75 X 1 X 8.44 inches; 254 pages; minor smudge on DJ's spine. Light speckles on spine inside the DJ. Light yellowing on pages. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Fine and unmarked book beneath an unclipped dust jacket. There are no tears or conspicuous damage to the jacket, BUT there is certainly some local creasing, principally, but not exclusively, to the spine ends. Overall, an excellent copy, the book remaining in essentially fine condition. Translated from the Latin by Ralph Robinson. Introduction by Jenny Mezciems. An extensive Chronology is included. xli, 148pp.…

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Former Library book. In polypropylene bag. (philosophy) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).…

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 168 pages, a near fine hardback, contemporary green part leather binding with gold gilt and five raised bands to the spine, and speckled boards in between. Also the end papers with the same speckled design and top page edges are gold gilt. A superb Victorian book that has the Armorial bookplate of the Audenham House, Herts. [Gibbs Family after 1671] on the inside of the front cover. It then went to a university library - there's minimum evidence of this. We have acquired many of these English Reprints, all with matching bindings.…

576 p. Sehr guter Zustand, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, im Buchschnitt als solches gestempelt. 9783743376786 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782 16,7 x 3,9 x 2,2 cm, Softcover/Paperback.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition without jacket on light green cloth ++ Phamphlet on introduction to utopia by FJ moorhead will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

London: Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons. 1903. Folio. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with brown cloth sides, printed labels to spine and upper board, fore- and tail-edges uncut, two spare printed labels tipped in at end; pp. xi, [1 (blank)], 265, [1 (colophon)]; text printed in red and black on paper watermarked 'Chiswick Press', title within elaborate woodcut border signed W.L. Bruckman, frontispiece incorporating reproduction of Holbein's portrait of More with tissue guard, 5- and 8-line woodcut initials, large woodcut vignettes to pp. 8 and 17 after Ambrose Holbein; some soiling and rubbing to boards, splitting to cloth at upper joint; sporadic light foxing throughout, heavier to endpapers and first and final leaves, p. 39 browned; but a very good, sound copy.No. 177 of 220 copies of the handsome Chiswick Press edition of the first English translation (1551) of More's Utopia, illustrated with woodcuts after those of Ambrosius Holbein, brother of Hans Holbein the Younger, to the 1518 Basel edition.Utopia 'inveighs against the new statesmanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education' (Printing and the Mind of Man). This edition reproduces the Utopian alphabet and a stanza in the Utopian language from the 1518 edition (p. 151) and includes a life of More by William Roper, his son-in-law, as well as several of his letters, many to his daughter Margaret. A further 210 copies were privately printed for distribution in New York by the Chiswick Press for the Scott-Thaw Company.…

Zustand: 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. Housed in custom clamshell box. 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).…

The Kelmscott Press limited edition of Sir Thomas More's "quintessential humanist dialogue" (ODNB), first published in Louvain in 1516. Quarto, original publisher's limp vellum with gilt titles to the spine, original silk ties, text printed in red and black in Chaucer and Troy types, 2 full-page woodcut borders and initials designed by William Morris. One of 300 copies printed by William Morris and edited by Frederick S. Ellis. William Morris believed that Utopia belonged in every Socialist's library. 40 copies of this edition were "ordered in advance by an Eton master, with the intention of distributing them as prizes among the boys of the college, but when the work appeared with a compromisingly Socialistic introduction by Morris, the order, from motives of prudence, had to be cancelled." Cockerell 16; Peterson A16; Sparling 16. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example. Thomas Moreâs Utopia (1516) drew on a rich tapestry of intellectual influences, including Platoâs Republic, St. Augustineâs De civitate Dei, Amerigo Vespucciâs accounts of the New World, and Erasmusâs Institutio Principis Christiani. These sources converged in Moreâs portrayal of an idealized society that critiqued the political and social structures of early 16th-century Europe. Utopia was "a tract for the times, to rub in the lesson of Erasmus; it inveighs against the new statemanship of all-powerful autocracy and the new economics of large enclosures and the destruction of the old common-field agriculture, just as it pleads for religious tolerance and universal education" (PMM). William Morris's Kelmscott Press edition of 1893 represented a significant moment in the bookâs reception history, aligning Moreâs humanist vision with the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement. Morris, a socialist and a key figure in the revival of traditional craftsmanship, saw in Utopia a kindred critique of industrial capitalism and social inequality. The Kelmscott edition, with its richly ornamented typography and hand-crafted aesthetic, emphasized the bookâs ethical and artistic value, treating it not merely as a literary classic but as a political and philosophical statement. By publishing Utopia in a form that rejected mass production and celebrated medieval design principles, Morris reinforced the textâs challenge to modern economic structuresâ"much like More had criticized the enclosure movement and the erosion of common-field agriculture in the 16th century.…