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Ideal Commonwealths

Henry Morley

First published 1885
Publisher George Routledge & Sons
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 284
Price 1/-


Headings of WorldCat library records include (ISFDB standard typography): • Ideal Commonwealths: Comprising More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun, and Harrington's Oceans --as 1885, 284 pages, {{OCLC|437794670}}; Revised ed., (c)1901, xiii+416 pages, {{OCLC|976880143}} and others • Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Campanella's City of the Sun and a fragment of Hall's Mundus alter et idem --as 2nd ed., 1886, {{OCLC|7160223}}; 3rd ed., 1887, 284 pages, {{OCLC|2612679}}; and other 284-page editions


The full text and images of this edition are available at The Internet Archive. The digital copy does not contain images of the outside covers (original or not), maybe not inside covers. The default display shows two pages at once, which appear to be front and back of each leaf (title page on the left; every odd-number page on the left; etc).

"Morley's University Library" is presented on the first three non-blank pages, which probably show the inside front cover and the front free endpaper. That promotional essay ends with a two-column list of First Year's Volumes and Second Year's Volumes, numbered 1 to 12 and 13 to 24, with this one listed thus (quote): 23. Ideal Commonwealths: More's Utopia; Bacon's New Atlantis; and Campanella's City of the Sun. March, 1885. Publication date 1885-03-25 is thus implied by the essay subheading (quote): In Monthly Volumes, One Shilling Each, Ready on the 25th of each Month.

The Introduction, p[5]-8, closes "H. M." and "March 1885".

Year Reviewer Publication
1991 Everett F. Bleiler Science Fiction: The Early Years

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Ideal Commonwealths 2006 Project Gutenberg eBook Anthology 18638