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Hudibras : in three parts, written in the time of the late wars / corrected and amended ; with large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey LL.D. ; adorn'd with a new set of cuts.

Accession number
PML 142054-142055
Creator
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Published
Cambridge : Printed by J. Bentham, printer to the University, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Mess. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, T. Longman, T. Woodward, C. Hitch, J. Oswald, J. Shuckburgh, J. Hodges, E. Wicksteed, Mess. Ward and Chandler, G. Hawkins, Me
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Vol. 2 imprint reads printed in London by J. Bettenham for the same booksellers.
Vol. 1: [2], xxxvi, [42], 424, [16] p., [1], ix leaves of plates (some folded); v. 2: [2], 446, [24] p., x-xv leaves of plates (some folded).
Frontispiece is an engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue; the illustrations are engraved by J. Mynde after designs by William Hogarth.
Vol. 1 contains the frontispiece and plates i-ix, v. 2 plates x-xv.
Both volumes contain an index at end; v. 2 has errata on p. [24] of index.
Includes list of subscribers in v. 1, p. [1]-[42] of first sequence.
Signatures (8vo): v. 1: A⁸ a-b⁸ c² *A-*B⁸ *C⁴ *D²[-D2, blank?] A-2D⁸ 2E⁴; v.2: pi²[-pi2, blank?] A-2F⁸ 2G⁴[-G4, blank?]. Final leaf "lacking" in v.2 may have been used for t.p.
Description
2 v. : ill. (engravings), ports. ; 24 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Huth; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Blue morocco tooled in gilt by Charles Lewis; with blue morocco doublures and vellum endpapers.
Classification
Department