Thomas More's Utopia in Early Modern Europe provides the first
complete account of all the editions of Utopia, whether vernacular
or Latin, printed before 1650, together with a transcription of all
the prefatory materials they contain. The reception of the idea of
Utopia in early modern Europe has been studied extensively before:
what has been lacking is a composite picture of how Utopia moved by
means of translation from culture to culture and of the ways in
which particular versions offered themselves to their readers. Part
I consists of a series of chapters which provide a contextual and
interpretative framework for each national group of translations;
in Part II, the substantive paratexts of all the extant
translations of Utopia printed between 1524 and 1643 are reproduced
both in the original language and in English translation. The book
also contains a chapter sketching the fortunes of the Latin
paratexts and editions up to 1650, and a transcription of a single
Latin paratext which has never, to our knowledge, been printed in
modern times. This book will be of interest to specialists in early
modern cultural history and history of the book, to graduate
students working in these fields, and to anyone for whom the
extraordinary success of More's Utopia as a book published on the
European market remains a perennial fascination. -- .
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