Description
in three parts
by Samuel Butler
London; 1684
First edition of all 3 parts bound in one volume
Size 4.5 by 7"
Lacks title page of the first part.
Last few pages with wormtracks at the lower margin
Otherwise very good condition, minor wear
text in English
Samuel Butler (baptized 1612-—died 1680) was a poet and satirist, famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities. It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever he saw them.
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1684 HUDIBRAS by SAMUEL BUTLER antique in ENGLISH POLITICAL SATIRE poetry 1st ed
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