Author: BUTLER, SAMUEL
Title: Hudibras, In Three Parts, Written In The Time Of The Late Wars With Large Annotations and a Preface By Zachary Grey LL.D.
Description: London, Verner, Hood, And Sharpe; Otridge And Son; Cuthell and Martin ;R.Faulder; Lackington Allen & Co. 1806, New Edition. Full Calf, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 2 Vols. LII-500 PP & 476 PP. Illustrated [portrait frontispice, fine headpieces] Butler's satiric poem on the English Civil War was written in "Chaucerian" couplets and published in three parts between 1663 and 1678. "The poem is of considerable length, extending to more than 10,000 verses, yet Hazlitt hardly exaggerates, when he says that 'half the lines are got by heart'; indeed a diligent student of later English literature has read great part of Hudibras though he may never have opened its pages" (Encycl. Britannica). Original full calf,with single gilt filet lines at covers. Hinges weak, but good, clean and sound copy of this classic text. Good.

Keywords: Butler. Literature. Hudibras.


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