Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ Mori no[n] min[us] vtile q[uam] elega[n]s de optimo reipublic[a]e statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia, iam iteru[m], sed multo correcti[us] q[uam] pri[us], hac enchiridij forma vt vides multo[rum] tu[m] senatoru[m] tu[m] alioru[m] grauissimoru[m] viro[rum] suasu æditu[m], quod sane tibi [a]edisce[n]dum no[n] modo in manib[us] quotidie habendu[m] ce[n]seo. : Cui quide[m] ab innumeris me[n]dis vndequaq[ue] purgatio p[rae]ter Erasmi annotatio[n]es ac Budæi ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc sæculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima .
This is a 1517 Paris edition of Thomas More's Utopia, printed by Gilles de Gourmont with prefatory letters by Erasmus and Budé, made for humanist scholars and readers of Latin. Its three pictures are decorated woodcut initial letters, D, N and O, framed in dense foliage, scrollwork and a flower, with a few lines of Latin text set around each.
![Picture 1 of 3 from Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ Mori no[n] min[us] vtile q[uam] elega[n]s de optimo reipublic[a]e statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia, iam iteru[m], sed multo correcti[us] q[uam] pri[us], hac enchiridij forma vt vides multo[rum] tu[m] senatoru[m] tu[m] alioru[m] grauissimoru[m] viro[rum] suasu æditu[m], quod sane tibi [a]edisce[n]dum no[n] modo in manib[us] quotidie habendu[m] ce[n]seo. : Cui quide[m] ab innumeris me[n]dis vndequaq[ue] purgatio p[rae]ter Erasmi annotatio[n]es ac Budæi ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc sæculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima . (1517), leaf 32](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-adlectoremhabesc00more-32-0.webp)
![Picture 2 of 3 from Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ Mori no[n] min[us] vtile q[uam] elega[n]s de optimo reipublic[a]e statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia, iam iteru[m], sed multo correcti[us] q[uam] pri[us], hac enchiridij forma vt vides multo[rum] tu[m] senatoru[m] tu[m] alioru[m] grauissimoru[m] viro[rum] suasu æditu[m], quod sane tibi [a]edisce[n]dum no[n] modo in manib[us] quotidie habendu[m] ce[n]seo. : Cui quide[m] ab innumeris me[n]dis vndequaq[ue] purgatio p[rae]ter Erasmi annotatio[n]es ac Budæi ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc sæculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima . (1517), leaf 41](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-adlectoremhabesc00more-41-0.webp)
![Picture 3 of 3 from Ad lectorem. Habes candide lector opusculum illud vere aureu[m] Thomæ Mori no[n] min[us] vtile q[uam] elega[n]s de optimo reipublic[a]e statu, deq[ue] noua insula Vtopia, iam iteru[m], sed multo correcti[us] q[uam] pri[us], hac enchiridij forma vt vides multo[rum] tu[m] senatoru[m] tu[m] alioru[m] grauissimoru[m] viro[rum] suasu æditu[m], quod sane tibi [a]edisce[n]dum no[n] modo in manib[us] quotidie habendu[m] ce[n]seo. : Cui quide[m] ab innumeris me[n]dis vndequaq[ue] purgatio p[rae]ter Erasmi annotatio[n]es ac Budæi ep[isto]lam: viroru[m] sane qui hoc sæculo nostro extra omnne[m] ingenij aleam positi sunt: addita est etia[m] ipsius Mori ep[isto]la eruditissima . (1517), leaf 251](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-adlectoremhabesc00more-251-0.webp)