The common-wealth of Vtopia: Containing a learned and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Vtopia
This is a 1639 English printing of Thomas More's Utopia, a political philosophy text printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet and sold in Covent Garden, London, for a general readership of learned readers. The four pictures are decorative printers' ornaments: two large woodcut initial letters T, one heavily textured initial with floral corners, and a row of fleur-de-lis and cartouche border strip, offering designers period pattern vocabulary of foliage, scrollwork and repeated heraldic motifs.
