Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, Written in the Time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. By Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly Printed. With A Key to Hudibras [...]
Publisher: Printed for Sam. Briscoe, R. Smith and G. Strahan …
Published: 1716
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, Written in the Time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. By Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly Printed. With A Key to Hudibras, By Sir Roger L’Estrange: In two volumes. The Fourth Edition, with Additions.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 3 volumes in 12mo. f. [1] (blank), [13], pp. 243, [21], f. [1] (blank). Tooled mottled brown calf, gilded spine with red panel and black compartments. Includes head- and tailpieces, engaved initials. Plate of Charles James Wood. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Vol. 1 (1716) is the fourth edition; vol. 2 (1715) is the third edition; vol. 3 (1717) adds new material.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Complete text, including a reprint of Samuel Butler’s forgery of William Prynne, ‘Mola asinaria,’ first published in 1659. See ESTC N20964. See also Bib# 4102849/Fr# 321 and Bib# 4102850/Fr# 322 in this collection for variant issues of the 1715 edition of ‘Posthumous Works.’</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039111449707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>