Thomas Morus: De optimo reip. statu... noua insula Utopia. Basileae, 1518.
Thomas More (1478–1535), was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a Chancellor to Henry VIII. He wrote Utopia, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation. The book containes a woodcut map of the Island of Utopia by Ambrosius Holbein and the Utopian alphabet.
