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1629 1st ed Thomas More UTOPIA Socialism Communism
1629 1st ed Thomas More UTOPIA Socialism Communism
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1629 1st ed Thomas More UTOPIA Socialism Communism Utopian Politics MINIATURE

“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.” ― Thomas More, Utopia

This famous book by Thomas More, ‘Utopia,’ depicts a fictional island society with its own social, religious, and political customs. First published in 1516, many 16th-century critics were curious and confused at the reason More wrote the work. Many aspects of ‘Utopia’ describe life in a monastery, yet still, More seems to be criticizing European society – which he considered to have many problems. More, a devout Catholic, writes of controversial topics which those on the island of Utopia practiced such as divorce, euthanasia, married priests, and female priests. These practices were widely considered opposite of the Catholic faith, but More cites them as commonplace in his writing.

‘Utopia’ is even polarizing in terms of modern politics. It seems to have been influential to Anabaptists, communism, and social Marxism. Though, ‘the answer implied by “Utopia” was that political realities must be changed in order to free men.” “More was claiming that community pressure could be made to correspond to and to endorse conscience and the way to achieve this was through institutional and legal regulation, supervision and control…the environment of the monastery.” (Davis, 57-58).

An incredible miniature printing of this Renaissance classic.

Item number: #514

Price: $950

MORE, Thomas

Thomæ Mori Vtopia : à mendis vindicata

Amsterodami : apud Guili. Janssonium. Blaeuw, 1629. First edition, miniature.

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Collation complete with all pages: 269

Binding: Vellum; tight and secure

References: Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society; Lakowski International Thomas More Bibliography U19; Gibson 13 + Smith 1981:23; Shaaber M241; Cave p.283

Language: Latin

Size: ~4in X 2in (10cm x 5cm)

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