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Book Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Mint/No Jacket. First Thus Folio Edition. 8vo. Half red buckram with black spine, gilt design on black , gilt on front board. 127pp. Coloured frontispiece portrait of Sir Thomas More together with 56 black/white and coloured illustrations throughout the text. SIR THOMAS MORE (1478-1535) was a friend of ERASMUS and became LORD CHANCELLOR under HENRY VIII - but refused to take any oath that would impugn the authority of Rome or recognise the King's divorce from Queen Catherine, and this led to his trial for treason and beheading. ROPER was SIR THOMAS MORE's son-in-law. Book in fine as unread condition in slightly scruffy pink slipcase.; 000569; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Title: A Man of Singular Virtue . Being a Life of Sir Thomas More by His Son-In-Law William Roper and a Selection of More's Letters.
Categories: Biography. Essays. Letters. Diaries, History & Politics. Churchill, Eng Lit, Lit Crit & Shakespeare, Folio Society,
Edition: 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition)
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1980
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Seller ID: 000569
Keywords: MORE Sir Thomas ERASMUS Lord Chancellor Henry Viii Queen Catherine HISTORY English 15th Century 16th ; A Man Of Singular Virtue . Being A Life Of Sir Thomas More By His Son-in-law William Roper And A Selection Of More's Letters.
