Author

BUTLER, Samuel.

Title

Hudibras, in Three Parts;
Written in the Time of the Late Wars; corrected and amended. With large annotations and a preface. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts, designed and engraved by Mr Hogarth.

Published, Date

Printed for D. Midwinter, C. Rivington [and others], London,1739.

Description

Two parts bound in one, 12mo (16 x 9 cm), 24, 23-142, [3], 128-148, 167-400 [24]pp., portrait frontispiece, illustrated with 9 engraved plates, some folding, head and tail pieces. Contemporary mottled calf, spine in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece to second, charming floral tooling to the panels, gilt outer edges, red speckled edges and marbled endpapers.

Note

Butler's Hudibras is a satire in the form of a mock heroic poem, which ridicules the hypocrisy of the Presbyterians and Independents. First published in three parts from 1663-78, it was highly approved by Charles II, who gave Butler lb300 and later a pension of lb100 a year.

References

Stock Number

62368