Title: The Third and Last Volume of Posthumous Works, Written By Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. Part Written in the Time of the Usurpation and the rest in the Reign of King Charles II. To which is added, The Coffin for the Good Old Cause [...]
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> The Third and Last Volume of Posthumous Works, Written By Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. Part Written in the Time of the Usurpation and the rest in the Reign of King Charles II. To which is added, The Coffin for the Good Old Cause. Publish’d just before the Restoration. By Sir Samuel Luke. </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;">Third of 3 volumes in 12mo. ff. [6], pp. 240, 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>