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Butler's Hudibras with Hogarth Illustrations

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Title: Hudibras, In Three Parts
Author: Butler, Samuel
Description: 2 volumes. [2], xxvi, [10] list of subscribers, [xxvii]-xxxvi, 399, [1] errata, [14]; 414, [18] pp. Portrait frontispiece; 16 copperplate engravings after works by William Hogarth including 5 folding. (8vo) 7½x4¾, old half morocco and marbled boards, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled. First Dublin Edition with Hogarth's illustrations. Annotations and preface by Zachary Grey. A subscriber's copy, Brinsley Butler, with name in ink on title page of each volume. Dibdin considered Grey's edition 'The best critical edition' of Butler's Hudibras. Strong, clear impressions of the engravings.
Place Published: Dublin
Publisher Name: Robert Owen
Date Published: 1744

Extremities worn, front hinge of Volume one cracked and open with binding loosely attached; light age toning to text and engravings; one folding plate with early paper repair on verso; else very good.

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