Utopia

The Latin Louvain 1516 is the true first and precedes all. Sequence of the early Latin editions: Louvain, Martens, December 1516 (first); Paris, Gilles de Gourmont, 1517 (second); Basel, Johann Froben, March 1518 and again November 1518 — the November Basel is the revised text and the most-reproduced, and is frequently miscalled 'the first' because of the Holbein map. Both the Latin first and the first in English are collected. The first English is Ralph Robinson's translation, 'A fruteful and pleasaunt worke of the beste state of a publyque weale, and of the newe yle called Utopia', London: Abraham Vele, 1551 — a full 35 years after the Latin and 16 years after More's execution. Robinson's revised second edition of 1556 is a separate, later edition and drops the dedicatory letter; it is not the first in English.