Hudibras In Three Parts Written In The Time Of The Late Wars Corrected And Amended With Large

by Ed Preface Samuel Butler Zachary Grey William Hogarth

$225 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Cambridge: J. Bentham and J. Bettenham, for Eddy & Fleeman, 1744. First edition to include Grey's annotations and preface. Two octavo volumes. Nineteenth-century red straight-grained morocco; gilt titling and rules; xxxvi, 42 , 424pp; 446, 24 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Butler to v.I; 16 inserted leaves of engraved plates several folding after Hogarth, as called for. Straight and tight in an attractive 19th-century binding.

• Binding: Leather

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