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A lovely uniformly bound set of this presentation copy of the Shrewsbury edition of Samuel Butler's works. Eighteen volumes of a twenty-volume set of the Shrewsbury Edition of this work, limited to 750 numbered sets; this work is a presentation copy. Uniformly bound in quarter vellum bindings with cloth boards. Top edge gilt.To the limitations page of each volume, an ink inscription states 'Presentation'; to volume XX, there is a further ink inscription stating 'And now for presentation to CJH on his birthday, 1975, from DG'. Loosely inserted to volume I is a publisher's slip stating 'Advance Copy for Review' for volumes I and II. Loosely inserted to volume XVI is a publisher's slip stating 'Advance Copy for Review' for volumes XVI and XVII. Loosely inserted to volume XX is a bookseller's compliments slip.The novelist and critic Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is best remembered for his satirical utopiannovelErewhon, his semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, and his prose translations of theIliadandOdyssey; these books are all included in this set of his works.The set, called the Shrewsbury Edition, was edited by Butler's friend and biographer Henry Festing Jones (1851-1928) and Augustus Theodore Bartholomew (1882-1933).The set comprises:Volume I: A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and other Early Essays (1923). With a frontispiece and 2 plates.Volume II: Erewhon or, Over the Range (1923). With a frontispiece and 3 plates. Volume III: The Fair Haven (1923). With a frontispiece.Volume IV: Life and Habit (1923). With a frontispiece.Volume V: Evolution, Old and New (1924). With a frontispiece.Volume VI: Unconscious Memory (1924). With a frontispiece.Volume VII: Alps and Sanctuaries (1924). With a frontispiece and 78 illustrations.Volume VIII: Luck or Cunning? (1924). With a frontispiece and 1 further plate. Volume IX: Ex Voto (1924). With a frontispiece, 2 double-page maps and 21 illustrations. Volume X: The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. I, 1774-1831 (1924). With a frontispiece and 2 plates. Volume XI: The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Vol. II, 1831-1838 (1924). With a frontispiece and 1 further plate.Volume XII: The Authoress of the Odyssey (1925). With a frontispiece and 18 illustrations. Volume XIII: The Iliad of Homer Rendered into English Prose (1925). With a frontispiece.Volume XIV: Shakespeare's Sonnets (1925). With a frontispiece and an 84-page facsimile of the original 1609 edition.Volume XV: The Odyssey Rendered into English Prose (1925). With a frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Volume XVI: Erewhon Revisited (1925). With a frontispiece and 4 plates. Volume XVII: The Way of All Flesh (1925).With a frontispiece and 3 plates.Vol XX The Note-Books (1926). With a frontispiece and 1 further plate.Collated, complete. In quarter vellum bindings. Externally, smart, with faint marks to the spines, as is usual with vellum. Faint marks to the tail of the rear board to vol XI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are untrimmed but bright and clean. Offsetting to the end papers. Many pages unopened to volumes VII and XIII. Pages 14 and 15 to volume XV have been badly opened, causing a loss to page 15, not affecting the text. Very Good Indeed.
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