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[MORE, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), subject]. CAYLEY, Arthur (1776-1848). Memoirs of Sir Thomas More, with a New Translation of His Utopia, His History of

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[MORE, Sir Thomas (1478-1535), subject]. CAYLEY, Arthur (1776-1848). Memoirs of Sir Thomas More, with a New Translation of His Utopia, His History of King Richard III, and His Latin Poems... London: Cadell and Davis, 1808. 4tos. Two volumes in one. [iii]-viii, 342; [4], 356 pp. Copper engraved frontisportraits of Sir Thomas More and Erasmus. Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards with a five-paneled spine tooled and lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. FIRST EDITION; CAYLEY'S TRANSLATION OF UTOPIA IS THE THIRD TRANSLATION OF THAT WORK.

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Binding worn at edges and joints, hinges starting, Intermittent light foxing and offsetting from frontisportraits. Occasional light browning, minor twentieth century ink marginalia, ink signature and inscription of John Burns (1921) on preliminary blank. Very good. 

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Contemporary ink signature of previous owner, Charles M. Clarke, on title pages of both volumes, and engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Webster on front end pastedown. Thomas Webster (1772-1844) was an early member of the Geological Society and, from 1812 to 1827, its curator, librarian, and draughtsman. Charles M. Clarke is likely Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, first baronet (1782-1857). After obtaining the College of Surgeons' diploma, he adopted midwifery as his specialty in 1804. His only published work was Observations on those Diseases of Females which are Attended by Discharges (1814-1821). As far as the present title, it was designed to reassert the integrity of the subject in reaction to Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts (1768).

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