MORE, Sir THOMAS. Epigrammata [edited by Beatus Rhenanus]. Basel: Johannes Froben, December 1520. Small 4to, contemporary vellum, leather thongs, contemporary parchment endleaves (from a manuscript leaf), minor marginal soiling to title-page. Second edition, but the first published separately, including thirteen new poems, woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, roman type, woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device at end, this copy with conjugate leaves o2.5 and o3.4 misbound in inverted order. Adams M1753; Gibson 57.

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MORE, Sir THOMAS. Epigrammata [edited by Beatus Rhenanus]. Basel: Johannes Froben, December 1520. Small 4to, contemporary vellum, leather thongs, contemporary parchment endleaves (from a manuscript leaf), minor marginal soiling to title-page. Second edition, but the first published separately, including thirteen new poems, woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, roman type, woodcut title border by Hans Holbein, woodcut initials, printer's woodcut device at end, this copy with conjugate leaves o2.5 and o3.4 misbound in inverted order. Adams M1753; Gibson 57.

Provenance: Early ownership inscriptions on title and colophon pages and a few early marginalia; nineteenth-century ms. shelf mark inside upper cover; a few modern marginal pencil annotations; George Milne.