Hudibras
London: Suttaby, Evance & Fox & Crosby & Co., 1812.
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. New edition. 12mo. Two volumes in one, each with an engraved title page and frontispiece. Contemporary black three quarter morocco and marbled paper boards, gilt spine title, all edges speckled. Small, light owner's stamp at the top margins of the two title pages and a few other leaves, with one additional small owner's stamp on the front free endpaper, and a contents summary in neat ink on the front endpapers. Front hinge nearly split, else very good with wear to the extremities.
Item #106077
Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902
Biography
English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the VIctorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore