Hudibras, . in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface,
Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
Category
Books
Date
1744
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3008326
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v.,plates . port.. . 8vo.. Extra plates. - With a loose title page to the 1819 new edition at the front of vol. II - perhaps where additional plates are from?. Provenance: Nineteenth-century crest bookplate: "Antony Gibbs" with motto "En Dios Mi Amparo Y Esperanza" [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1841-1907); family motto] in both. - Pencil ms on pastedown of vol. I.: "16 plates with additional plates. Subscribers copy Perfect March 1814 N Turner". - Pencil ms on title page of vol. I.: "Mr Hogarths plates to this date only".. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled and plain sheep; gold-tooled spine with one black and one brown label outlayed; blind-tooled boards; gold-tooled board edges; red sprinkled edges; green silk placeholders.
Makers and roles
Samuel Butler (1612-1680) Zachary Grey (1688-1766)