Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The common-wealth of Oceana.
Call Number
EX Lapidus 1.02
7510.434.11
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/cn69m487t
Publisher
London : Printed by J. Streater, for Livewell Chapman, 1656.
Language
English
Date Created
1656
Extent
6 p.l., 210 (i.e. 294 ) p., 1 l. ; 27 cm.
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
References
ESTC R18610
Wing H809
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title in red and black.
One of two identical editions issued with variant imprints on title page: the one given above (Wing H809) and "London, Printed for D. Pakeman, and are to be sold at his shop at the Rainbow in Fleet-street, 1656" (Wing H809A).
Paging irregular. Signatures: t-p., no sig.; Dedication, no sig.; Epistle to the reader and Errors of the impression, sig. a-[a²]; Introduction, sig- B-B²; text, sig. C-Rr in fours.
Dedication, to "the Lord Protector", signed "James Harrington".
Long list of errata at front.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Bound in modern full leather, with binder's mark 'D. 97' on back lower turn-in.

Discovery Information

Subject
Utopias—Early works to 1800
Utopian literature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
320

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6959f17d-9028-4cf0-9eb5-0e225fa79c8a/manifest