细节
[HALL, Joseph]. Mundus Alter et Idem sive Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus peregrini academici nuperrime lustrata. Auth. Mercurio Britiannico. [London and Hanau, sold] Frankfurt: apud haeredes Ascanii de Rinialme, [1607].
8° (147 x 95mm.). Engraved title by William Kip in first state, 5 engraved maps in first state with page numbers, one engraved and a few woodcut illustrations in the text. First gathering from second edition with manuscript correction 'mihi' on π7v, gatherings A-C & E-O from first edition with catchwords on recto and verso, gathering D from second edition with catchwords on verso only. Contemporary limp vellum (stitching weak, lacks ties). Provenance: Edw. Hoby (signature on title possibly of Sir Edward (1560-1617); Thomas Loveday (inscriptions on endpapers, with later pencil annotation 'From the Loveday Library at Williamscote Oxon).
FINE COPY OF THIS FAMOUS UTOPIA, or satirical 'dystopia', the first edition of which was printed in London by H. Lownes in 1605, the second in Hanau by Wilhelm Antonius in 1606-07. John Miller Wands 'The Early Printing History of Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem' in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (New York, 1980) pp.1-12 details the issues against copies in public libraries, and lists only two with this collation, in the British Library and the New York Public Library. STC 12685.3; Shaaber H-49; Gibson Utopias no.702.
8° (147 x 95mm.). Engraved title by William Kip in first state, 5 engraved maps in first state with page numbers, one engraved and a few woodcut illustrations in the text. First gathering from second edition with manuscript correction 'mihi' on π7v, gatherings A-C & E-O from first edition with catchwords on recto and verso, gathering D from second edition with catchwords on verso only. Contemporary limp vellum (stitching weak, lacks ties). Provenance: Edw. Hoby (signature on title possibly of Sir Edward (1560-1617); Thomas Loveday (inscriptions on endpapers, with later pencil annotation 'From the Loveday Library at Williamscote Oxon).
FINE COPY OF THIS FAMOUS UTOPIA, or satirical 'dystopia', the first edition of which was printed in London by H. Lownes in 1605, the second in Hanau by Wilhelm Antonius in 1606-07. John Miller Wands 'The Early Printing History of Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem' in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (New York, 1980) pp.1-12 details the issues against copies in public libraries, and lists only two with this collation, in the British Library and the New York Public Library. STC 12685.3; Shaaber H-49; Gibson Utopias no.702.