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Utopia
Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More and done into English by Ralph Robynson.

Item date(s): 1934

Thomas More  - (author)
Ralph Robynson  - (translated by)
H. G. Wells  - (introduction by)
Elizabeth Greenhill  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: 164pp
Size: 262mm
Binding: Designer binding; Solander box
Inscription: Signed and dated by the binder.
Edition: #1126/1500


Place publication: New York
Publisher: The Limited Editions Club

Additional notes:
Fifteen hundred copies of this book have been printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at Rudge Press under the supervision of Bruce Rogers (who signed the colophon).

Binding by Elizabeth Greenhill in a fleece-lined drop-back box in 1975.

Bound in red morocco with a design in greens, blues and purple with gold tooling on the front board and the initials 'TM' in blue with gold decorative tooling on the back board. Gilt title and tooled design on spine. Purple doublures, blue endpapers. Head and tailbands of matching blue and purple. Top edge purple with a blind tooled pattern containing the same tooling device as the covers. Green felt-lined drop-back box with red leather gilt title label.

Containing a photograph of the binding on the back of which is a label: "UTOPIA" by Sir Thomas More. This signed by Elizabeth Greenhill and dated 3-4-'81. Signed by Bruce Rogers.

With a letter by Colin Franklin to Cecil Behrmann concerning the authentication dated 9th April 1981 with a color photograph of the book containing Elizabeth Greenhill's signature on the back to authenticate it.

Ref: GB/8751



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