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Hudibras : a poem, in three cantos / by Samuel Butler.

Accession number
PML 145597-99
Creator
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Published
London : Printed by T. Rickaby for J. Edwards, 1793.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Consists of the text of Butler's Hudibras in 2 pts. [i.e. v. 1, pts. 1 & 2], followed by "Notes on Hudibras" by Dr. T. Nash, in 2 pts.
Added t.p.'s with engraved vignettes.
Added t.p.'s of v. 1 read "Hudibras, tom. I. [pt.] I and tom. I. [pt.] II"; t.p.'s of "Notes on Hudibras" read "tom. I" and "tom. II".
Vol. 1, pts. 1 & 2 of the text and parts 1 & 2 of "Notes on Hudibras" paged continuously.
Vol. 1, pt. 1: xxxix, 1-317 p.; v. 1, pt. 2: 318-678, viii p.; Notes on Hudibras, pt. 1: 1-237 p.; Notes on Hudibras, pt. 2: [238]-495, xviii p.
Imprint on t.p. of pt. 2 of v. 1 reads: Printed by T. Rickaby, for Benjamin and John White, Fleet-Street.
Illustrated with 27 prints and vignettes by James Ross, chiefly after designs by Hogarth.
200 copies were issued, some with the engravings in black and some in sepia; this copy has the sepia.
"Hudibras" and "Notes on Hudibras" both have separate indices.
Description
3 v. : ill, ports. (engraving) ; 31 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Charles Tilburn; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Red morocco by Kalthoeber.
Classification
Department