Idea Of A Happy Republic Or Utopia, Thomas Morus Chancellor Of England Amsterdam 1730

In its beautiful and sober calfskin binding, ribbed spine decorated with gilded star irons, brown morocco title, marbled endpapers with red edges, two-tone title, this beautiful work of a humanist and by his vision of a fairer humanity which cost him his life..... "Idea of a Happy Republic, or the Utopia of Thomas Morus, Chancellor of England. Containing the Plan of a Republic whose Laws, Usages & Customs tend only to make happy the Societies that follow them. Translated into French by Mr. Gueudeville, and enriched with Figures in intaglio In Amsterdam, at François l'Honoré 1730. Very beautiful copy with a frontispiece, a vignette on the title and beautiful figures A rare, exciting and avant-garde text which panicked the Church and the Royal Power...