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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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Title: Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written in The ...
Publisher: London: Printed by T. Bensley, for Vernon and Hood, Otridge and Son &c.,
Publication Date: 1799
