The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

London: William Pickering, 1835.

Price: $150.00

Hardcover. Aldine Edition. Two volumes. 12mo. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and decorative stamping and spine, boards ruled in blind. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait. Very slight erosion on the edges of the cloth, else near fine. Scarce in cloth.

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Item #359344 The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler. Samuel BUTLER.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler
The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

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