Hudibras
Subtitle: in three parts, written in the time of the late wars
By: by Samuel Butler ; with large annotations and a preface by Zachary Grey, LL.D.
Contributors: Grey, Zachary, 1688-1766, ed; Wiggin, Albert Henry,   1868-,   former owner; Albert H. Wiggin Collection (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Printed by T. Bensley, for Vernor and Hood ... [and 8 others]
Published: 1799
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Description: The celebrated mock-epic satirizing the English republicans, with Zachary Grey's notes, which kept Butler's world of outmoded learning accessible to later generations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

ESTC  T125697

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Dept.) copy 1 bound in early red straight-grained morocco with gilt edges and fore-edge paintings. The endpapers are marbled in a gloster pattern. The armorial bookplate of Albert Henry Wiggin is present at the front of both vols. The fore-edge painting on vol. 1 shows Hudibras and his squire setting out on their journey. Vol. II shows Hudibras paying court to his lady.

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Dept.) copy 2 bound in full calf with a gilt, ornamental border. Board edges and turn-ins are likewise gilt. The endpapers are marbled in a gloster pattern. An armorial bookplate with the name "Sherwin" is present in both volumes.