The common-vvealth of Utopia : containing a learned and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Vtopia
A 1639 London edition of Thomas More's Utopia, printed by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet and sold by Wil. Sheares in Covent Garden, a political discourse for a reading public. The pictures are small decorative typographic ornaments: four woodcut-style initials built from scrolling foliage, a grotesque face and a spiral-like device, with dense hatched shading that a designer could borrow for letter-based ornament and border work.
