Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Edinburgh: Printed for James Watson & Co., 1797.

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. 12mo. 304pp. Contemporary full speckled sheep, gilt spine with dark red titling label. A few small patches of scuffing to the spine back, wear to the front joint, front board gently bowed, very good. A scarce Scottish piracy from the 1796 London edition printed for A. Wren. An attractive copy printed on sheets of both hand made laid and wove paper. Not in *ESTC*.

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Item #348344 Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Samuel BUTLER.
Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars
Hudibras: In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler
birth name: Samuel Butler
born: 12/4/1835
died: 6/18/1902

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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