HUDIBRAS, IN THREE PARTS, WRITTEN IN THE TIMES OF THE LATE WARS BY SAMUEL BUTLER, ESQ WITH LARGE ANNOTATIONS AND A PREFACE BY ZACHARY GREY, LLD
BUTLER, Samuel | GREY, Zachary
Published by London: printed for Vernor Hood and Sharp; Otridge and Son Etc (and nine others all London), 1806
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Later edition, in two vols. Medium 8vo (9 x 5.5 ins); pp lii + 500; [ii] + 476. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Butler and a total of 16 plates (all with tissue-guards) across both vol plus chapter head vignettes. Full contemp calf, gilt, panelled spines with double contrasting labels lettered in gilt, edges of spine and corners rubbed. Two bookplates (Henry Charles Blaksley and John Hoffman) A solid copy of Butler's famous lampooning of Sir Hudibras, a fictitious arrogant religious Presbyterian extremist. Seller Inventory # 15392
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Title: HUDIBRAS, IN THREE PARTS, WRITTEN IN THE ...
Publisher: London: printed for Vernor Hood and Sharp; Otridge and Son Etc (and nine others all London)
Publication Date: 1806
Binding: Hardcover
Book Type: Book
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Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written in The Times of The Late Wars, by Samuel Butler, Esq. With Large Annotations and a Preface by Zachary Grey, LLD.
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London: Printed by T. Bensley, for Vernon and Hood, Otridge and Son &c.,, 1799
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Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
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Two volumes, royal octavo (24 x 15cm). 'The best critical edition of this author, but was by Dr. Zachery Grey, of which the notes are replete with curious, interesting, and accurate, historical and bibliographical intelligence. Bensley reprinted it handsomely in 1799'- Dibdin. Vol. I, pp. [2],lii,[2],436; Vol. II, pp. [iv],446,[18]. With a frontispiece portrait & 16 copper plates after Hogarth printed on different paper stock to the text, some of which have some foxing/browning, the portrait offset to the title-page. The text clean & fresh. Numerous fine woodcut vignettes by Nesbit. Bound in contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, the spines in six panels, gilt, the boards with double-lined border with corner decorations and dentelles all in gilt. The edges gilded & gauffered. A most handsome copy, with some very light rubbing. VG. [Lowndes 335; Dibdin Lib. Com. 731; Graesse I, 584]. Seller Inventory # 10842
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