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Medium
Woodcut
Collection
British Museum, London
Inventory
1904,0206.53
Period
Basel, 1515–1525
Attribution
Hans Holbein the Younger

The same border, also used for other Froben books, appears on the title page of the 1518 Basel Utopia.

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1083 × 1600 px. Photograph: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Woodcut title border of a Renaissance arch with putti on the columns and garlands overhead, tablets lettered HANS and HOLB in the top corners, framing the title of More's Utopia.