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 Richard Smith and George Strahan …, Jonas Brown …
Published: 1715
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
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.</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;"><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;"> 12mo. ff. [13], pp. 279, [21]. Signatures: A-N¹², O⁶. Later plain brown roan. Owner's signature: "C. Townsend.” Includes frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler, head- and tailpieces, engraved initials.</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;">Literary hacks forged Samuel Butler, trading on his immense popularity. The present work is riddled with such ‘extras.’ Only three of the pieces (Ode on DuVal, The case of King Charles I, and the Letters of Audland and Prynne) are by Butler, cf. The Retrospective review, 2 (1820), p. 259-260. See also G. Watson &amp; I. Willison (eds.), New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 5 vols. Cambridge, 1969-1974 for spurious attributions, and for Butler’s own forgeries of William Prynne, e.g., the tract ‘Mola asinaria.’ See ESTC, T128314. See also Bib# 4102849/Fr# 321 in this collection for a variant issue of the present edition.</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/alma991039111409707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>