One of ten copies on vellum. With manuscript limitation signed by Alexander Moring, the founder of the De La More Press: 'This copy of ''The Mirrour of Vertue in Wordly Greatnes'' is no. 4 of ten copies printed on vellum with hand illuminated initials. Alex: Moring'. From the 'King's Library' series edited by Israel Gollanz, volume I of the De La More Press folios.

'...the biography of More himself by his son-in-law William Roper (1496-1578), whose Life of More, written during the reign of Mary Tudor, was first published in Paris in 1626 with the title The Mirror of Virtue in Worldly Greatness. Roper is laudatory and almost solemnly respectful, yet sensitive to the nuances of his subject's character, and like More, he shows an admirable talent for dramatic anecdote.' (Ruoff, Macmillan's Handbook of Elizabethan & Stuart Literature, 1975).

Number 4 of 10 copies on vellum with hand-illuminated initials, from an overall limitation of 300; 4to (291 x 204 mm); manuscript limitation details by Alexander Moring, full-page engraved 'King's Library' series title after Blanche McManus, title printed in red & black with vignette portrait of More, illuminated with 21 hand-drawn and coloured initials in gold, red, blue and green, [?]by Blanche McManus; sixteenth century-style full calf with elaborate blind border and spine compartments, within additional blind rule borders, lettered in gilt to spine, slightly rubbed at extreme edges.