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24mo (100 × 45 mm), pp. 264. Two small ink marks to title.Contemporary blindtooled mottled calf, spine with 4 raised bands. Upper cover very slightly warped. Inscription to front free endpaper “Bullen Reymes pret. 1s”. A very good copy.
A pocket Utopia, formerly belonging to Bullen Reymes the civil-war era army officer, courtier, and government official. Reymes saw active service in the Royalist armies, and was appointed to various lucrative offices on the Restoration. He was also a noted diarist and was nominated a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667 by his friend John Evelyn.
‘Reymes seems to have been built for friendship: among those in this category he numbered Pepys, Evelyn, Thomas, Lord Clifford, Sir Charles Cotterell, and Sir William Coventry. Despite a passionate temper, he seems to have earned the respect of nearly all who came into contact with him. Contemporaries valued him for his loyalty, honesty, probity, and wry good humour. He was tolerant of the full spectrum of Restoration belief, but died a staunch Anglican. He was also highly cultivated, skilled in music as a youth, an avid theatre-goer and gardener’ (Bucholz, ODNB).
The text ofUtopia here is a reprint of the 1629 Amsterdam edition, edited by Pierre Gillis.
‘Reymes seems to have been built for friendship: among those in this category he numbered Pepys, Evelyn, Thomas, Lord Clifford, Sir Charles Cotterell, and Sir William Coventry. Despite a passionate temper, he seems to have earned the respect of nearly all who came into contact with him. Contemporaries valued him for his loyalty, honesty, probity, and wry good humour. He was tolerant of the full spectrum of Restoration belief, but died a staunch Anglican. He was also highly cultivated, skilled in music as a youth, an avid theatre-goer and gardener’ (Bucholz, ODNB).
The text ofUtopia here is a reprint of the 1629 Amsterdam edition, edited by Pierre Gillis.
Wing M2690; Madan, III, 2643*.
£1250.00
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