Title: Hudibras. The second part; With the Continuation of the third canto; To which is added A Fourth Canto. By the same author. Published to Undeceive the Nation
Description: <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;"> Small 8vo. pp. [4], 123 (p. 21 and 28 misnumbered 12 and 24 respectively), [1] (blank), f. [1] (blank). Signatures: A-H8. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">Brown leather, tooled, gilded spine on 4 bars. Boards and p. [2] stamped by Hampstead Public Libraries with release label on first endpaper. </span></font></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;">Fourth edition (the first and only edition to contain the added Fourth Canto) of the spurious ‘Second Part’, denounced by Butler himself in his genuine Second Part, canto 3, line 1001: see S.C. Chew, Byron in England: his fame and after-fame. London, 1924, 45. D. Wing (ed.), Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641–1700. 4 vols. New York, 1982-98 (2nd ed.), B6308a records copies at the British Library, Huntington, and Yale only (the latter being imperfect, lacking G6). Bound with the 1663 second  unauthorized edition of the first part. See the bibliography by James L. Thorson, “The Publication of Hudibras,” in: The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 60 (1966), ‘Edition M,’ pp. 418-438.
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