MORE (Thomas, St); SYLVESTER (Richard S., founding editor, with others): The Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More, ,PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. First Edition of the complete edition comprising 15 Volumes in 21 physical volumes (volumes 3, 5, 6 and 14 are in 2 volumes each, and volume 8 is in 3 volumes), a very good complete set of the original hardback edition with dustwrappers (some of these with wear but generally very good); numerous illustrations, maps &c., neat library stamp verso titles and shelf number label at foot of spines, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963 - 1997. "This edition includes all of More’s extant works. Each volume is edited by a specialist in the field of Renaissance studies and includes a comprehensive introduction. Latin texts are accompanied by a facing English translation. There is a full textual apparatus listing all significant variants. Each text is followed by an extensive commentary and, where relevant, by appendices containing supplementary material. All the English works are provided with glossaries." - Yale website. Sir Thomas More (1478 – 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, and statesman. He is also recognised as a saint within the Catholic Church. During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, an opponent of the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther and for opposing William Tyndale and his translation of the Bible into the English language. For three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor. More coined the word "utopia" - a name he gave to the ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in Utopia, published in 1516. An important counsellor to Henry VIII of England, he was tried and executed for treason by beheading in 1535 for denying that the king was the Supreme Head of the Church of England, a title the king had been given by the Act of Supremacy 1534. More had been in prison in the Tower of London since 1534 for his refusal to take the oath required by the First Succession Act, because the act disparaged the power of the Pope and Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. More was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1886 and canonised in 1935. (Book ref. 21150 ) £ 1600.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Jeffrey Stern Antiquarian Bookseller , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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