[Butler, Samuel]. Hudibras, in three parts; written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended, with large annotations and preface by Zachary Grey, LL. D., Adorn'd with a new set of cuts. The second edition, Vol. II. London: printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkings, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol and M. Richardson 1764, 1764.

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Description: Nur 2. Band, Erläuterungen und Vorwort von Zachary Grey, 2. Auflage, LDr. der Zeit mit rotem Rückenschild und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, auf 5 Bünde gebunden, 446 Seiten und 12 Blätter des Index, mit 8 Gravüren (Nr. VIII (zur Vol. I), X-XVI, sculpsit J. Mynde, inv. William Hogarth), 13 x 20 cm, Vorderdeckel fehlt, Rücken berieben und geplatzt, Vorsätze und Titelseite gebräunt, innen sehr schön erhalten, ohne Beschädigungen, altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English

Seller: Antikvariat Valentinska, Praha, Czech Republic

Butler, Samuel. Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended with Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. The Second Edition. In Two Volumes. COMPLETE.. C. Hitch and Others, GB, 1764.

Price: US$99.11 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Frontispiece and sixteen numbered plates (I-XVI) of which five are folding. Plate III has closed tear in margin. Texts fully collated. Page 303 is misnumbered 203. Fairly clean tight etxt with ocacsional spotting. Bound in old full leather with fie slightly raisd bdns. Old title labels. Stamped in gold 1 (faded) and 2. Books are in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom

BUTLER, Samuel. Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface by Zachary Grey, LL.D.. C. Hitch et al, London, 1764.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 3 parts in 2 vols.: xxxvi, 424; 446 p. 22 cm. 16 b&w plates (many folding). Full leather with gilt spines. Front hinges loosening, corners worn. Chip in volume 1's spine head and volume II's tail. Bookplates on front pastedowns for Benjamin Baugh. Tiny ink note at top of volume 1's front endpaper. Butler's mock heroic satire on the Puritans.

Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

BUTLER, SAMUEL: GREY, ZACHARY: HOGARTH, W.:. Hudibras, In Three Parts; Written in the Time of The Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, And a Preface by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. The Second Edition.. London, Printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst &c &c. 1764 (2nd.)., 1764.

Price: US$141.10 + shipping

Description: 2 volumes. Hardback, Tall 8vo. 8 x 5 inches. Full calf leather binding with raised and gilt banding to spines, red leather labels lettered in gilt, with gilt paneled boards. Red speckled page edges, plain endpapers. In very good conditions. Some wear to extremities; Corners bumped, edges rubbed, rubbing to spines with small nicks/chips to ends. Small cracks to hinges at ends of spine on v.1. Handling marks to boards, surface scuff to rear corner on v.1 and top and bottom of front board on v.2. Neat inscription to endpaper and title page ?Dawson, 1833.? With later inscription ?Widdes? to endpapers. Some minor handling marks else pages all very clean and tight. Plates clean and bright. Illustrated with 17 engraved plates (many folding) by William Hogarth, including an engraved frontis portrait of S. Butler by G. Vertue. 424 pp./ 446 pp., each vol. with long index. Grey (1688-1766), a learned antiquarian and strong churchman. Samuel Butler (1612- 1680), satirist.

Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom

Butler, Samuel (revised by Zachary Grey). Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars Volumes I and II. C.Hitch etc/ J.Bettenham, London, 1764.

Price: US$192.41 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Two rebound volumes. Volume I is a second edition published by Hitch in 1764. Volume II was published by Bettenham in 1744.

Seller: Beach Hut Books, Lingfield, United Kingdom

Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 / Grey, Zachary 1688-1766 / Hogarth, William 1697-1764 .:. Hudibras, In Three Parts; Written in the Time of The Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, And A Preface, By Zachary Grey, LL.D. Adorn'd with a new Set of Cuts. The Second Edition.. London : Printed for C Hitch G Hawkins C Bathurst J Tonson J Worral & 9 others including T Longman MDCCLXIV, 1764.

Price: US$230.90 + shipping

Description: A very good 2 volume set in matching full leather bindings. 8vo. 8.5" x 5.5" x 1.5" [21.5cm x 14.0cm x 4.0cm] , with 16 engravings as called for. Vol. I. : [2pp.]/pp.xxxvi/pp.424/[16pp.] With engraved frontis and 9 numbered plates (some folding) . Vol. 1 has frontispiece portrait of Butler engraved 1744 by G. Vertue. Vol. II. : [2pp.]/pp.446/[24pp.] with 6 numbered engravings (some folding). Original brown calf. Hinges carefully strengthened. Spines with 5 raised bands contrasting red and black labels (chipped) and gilt decorated compartments (rubbed). Both volumes with wear to edges. Small armorial bookplate to the verso of each front board: "Thomas M. Lowndes." Inner hignes carefully strengthened. Light toning to first few leaves and the last few leaves of each volume, otherwise clean text and engravings throughout. A very good set. ** Referenced by : ESTC T125418. *** " The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. The work was begun, according to the title page, during the civil war and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678, with the first edition encompassing all three parts in 1684 . The Mercurius Aulicus (an early newspaper of the time) reported an unauthorised edition of the first part was already in print in early 1662. Published only four years after Charles II had been restored to the throne and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell being completely over the poem found an appreciative audience. The satire is not balanced as Butler was fiercely royalist and only the parliamentarian side are singled out for ridicule. Butler also uses the work to parody some of the dreadful poetry of the time. The epic tells the story of Sir Hudibras, a knight errant who is described dramatically and with laudatory praise that is so thickly applied as to be absurd, and the conceited and arrogant person is visible beneath. He is praised for his knowledge of logic despite appearing stupid throughout, but it is his religious fervour which is mainly attacked. Fifty years after the last part was written a new edition was published, with illustrations by William Hogarth, one of the foremost artists of the day. The work remained popular for several centuries as a warning against the zealotry during the Civil War period of English history. " - See Wikipedia

Seller: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, United Kingdom

Butler, Samuel. Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended with Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey. C. Hitch, London, 1764.

Price: US$236.25 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "Printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson." 2nd edition. 2 v.: ([2], xiv, xxxvi, 424, [16] p.; [2], 446, [24] p.): frontispiece, and 15 additional leaves of plates (some folded); 22 cm. 19th-century half calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Red leather labels in the second compartment of each volume with gilt-tooled title "Butler's Hudibras." Gilt-tooled volume number in third compartment of each volume. Marbled paper over boards. All page edges red. Marbled endpaper. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler in vol. 1 engraved by G. Vertue. Small green bookdealer's label on front fixed endpaper of each volume for S & T Gilbert Booksellers, London. In verse. Plates by William Hogarth. Includes indexes. Former owner inscription at foot of both title pages: "Thomas Robinson 1845." Former owner inscription on blank leaf following both front free endpapers: "Lotta Wheeler Poritz March 1930." In Very Good Condition: edges and boards somewhat rubbed; upper corner of front board of vol. 1 scraped; both back boards have small scrapes; occasional foxing; otherwise pages and plates are clean and bright.

Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.

Butler, Samuel. Hudibras, In Three Parts: Written in the Time Of The Late Wars, Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, And A Preface by Zachary Gray, LL.D.. C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, et al., London, 1764.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: 424 & 446 pages. 8vo, sixteen copper engraved plates by William Hogarth, many of which are fold-outs. Unpaginated Indexes in each volume -- 16pp and 23pp respectively. Notes by Zachary Grey. Hudibras is Sir Samuel Lake, a gentleman of Bedforshire, and a commander of note under Cromwell. The general design of Hudibras is borrowed from "Don Quixote." Here the Presbyterians tilt at windmills. DIBDIN called Gray's edition, "the best critical edition of this author." [see: DIBDIN'S LIBRARY COMPANION]. BRUNET Vol.I, p.1429. Raised bands, gilt spine motifs, modest age-toning, plates clean, chipping to preliminary blanks, minor surface rubbing, marbled endpapers. Late 19th century three quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Teg. 2 vols. Near fine

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Butler, Samuel. Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the time of the late wars: Corrected and amended with large annotations and a preface by Zachary Grey. Adorn’d with a new Set of Cuts. Second edition. 2 vols. London, C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson, 1764., 1764.

Price: US$352.77 + shipping

Description: With author’s engr. portrait after G. Soest in vol. I and with 16 engr. copperplates (1 folding) by J. Mynde after W. Hogarth. XIV, XXXVI, 424 pp. 8 leaves index; 1 leaf, 446 pp., 12 leaves index. 8vo. Contemp. calf (rebacked). Second illustrated edition of Butlers heroic tale in verses. The first edition illustrated with plates by Hogarth was published in 1726. – Lowndes I, 335; cf. Thieme/Becker XVII, 296 (mentioning a series of 12 plates only). – Corners bumped. Few plates narrowly cut. Sligth browning of the paper. Good and clean copy in all.

Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland

BUTLER, Samuel (bap.1613, d.1680); William Hogarth [illustrates]. Hudibras, in three parts; written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey LL.D. Adorn'd with a new set of cuts. printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, J. Tonson, J. Worral, R. Baldwin, T. Longman, J. Bathoe, C. Corbett, T. Lownds, G. Kearsly, T. Becket, W. Nichol, and M. Richardson, London, 1764.

Price: US$364.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "Best edition" (Lowndes), with Grey's annotations and Hogarth's plates, of the most celebrated satire of the seventeenth century. Complete in two octavo volumes, with engraved half-length portrait of the author by Vertue and 16 full-page engravings (five folding) by Mynde after Hogarth. [2],xiv,xxxvi,424,[16]; [2],446,[24]pp. Contemporary full calf, spines in six compartments divided by gilt-ruled bands, red morocco lettering pieces gilt, all edges speckled red. Engraved armorial spade shield bookplates of J. G. Vernon on front paste-downs. A superlative set: endpapers and a few preliminaries and final leaves browned at margins but otherwise clean and bright; plates pristine, in deep, rich impressions; boards firmly attached, bindings tight and intact. Grolier (English 100) 32. Bland, pp. 216-19. Wither to Prior 137. Dibdin (Library Companion), p.731 ("the best critical edition, not only of this author, but doubtless of every other of the period"). Brunet I 1427-28. Lowndes 335. Maslen & Lancaster (Bowyer Ledgers) 4485. Paulson (Hogarth's Graphic Works) 73-84. Second Hogarth edition with Grey's notes (with "many emendations upon that of 1744," according to Lowndes). Originally published in three parts, between 1663 and 1678; the first edition with Hogarth's plates appeared in 1726, and the plates were re-engraved for this edition). Influenced by Rabelais and particularly Cervantes' Don Quixote, Butler's mock-heroic poem satirized Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians, and other factions of the English Civil War. "Although 'written in the time of the late Wars,' Hudibras was not licensed to be printed until 11 November 1662, two years after re-establishment of the monarchy, when a satire on Puritanism could no longer give offense to the ruling party. On the contrary, the satisfaction which it gave to the King and court had much to do with the great success it achieved." (Grolier English Literature 100, 32). Samuel Pepys bought a copy, and finding no humor in it, sold it the same day. Still, the book enjoyed enormous popularity, and on 5 November 1663, the Second Part appeared. Fourteen years passed before 'Hudibras: the Third and Last Part' (dated 1678) was entered in the Stationers' register on 22 August 1677 and put on sale. Multiple editions (as well as pirated issues) of the individual parts, as well as combined editions, were published by 1680. According to Bland, Hogarth's plates are a "landmark in English illustration and emphasize its divergence from an international style. . . . nothing could be more different from French work of the time . . . Hogarth aims at the common man; where the French illustrator is salacious, he is coarse; where the French illustrator chooses a classical or aristocratic subject, he prefers a contemporary plebeian one; and he is moral where the Frenchman is amoral." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.

[BUTLER, Samuel] [1612-1680].. Hudibras, In Three Parts; Written in the Time of The Late Wars; Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, And A Preface, By Zachary Grey Second Edition.. London: Printed for C.Hitch, G.Hawkins, C.Bathurst , 1764., 1764.

Price: US$388.50 + shipping

Description: 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., xiv, xxxvi, 424, [16]; 1 p.l., 446, [23]. engraved frontis. portrait by G.Vertue & 16 engraved plates by J.Mynde after William Hogarth (5 folding). contemporary calf (joints split, spine ends & corners worn, 1 plate trimned & mounted, another wrinkled & with short tear in 1 fold). ownership entry of W[illiam] Martin Leake, Cambridge (crossed out on first title), the classical scholar and numismatist [1777-1860]. printed book label of Anne Moens. Second Edition with Zachary Grey’s annotations (first: 1744) of Butler’s mock-heroic poem satirizing the Puritans and modelled on Don Quixote. Hogarth’s illustrations, first published in 1726, and re-engraved by Mynde for Grey’s important critical edition "begin to manifest his incomparable sense of the grotesque, his perception of character, and his power of composition." (DNB)

Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada

Hogarth - (Butler, Samuel).. Hudibras, in Three Parts; Written in the Time of the Late Wars: Corrected and Amended. With Large Annotations, and a Preface, by Zachary Grey. Adorn's with a new Set of Cuts.. Ldn., Printed for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst u.v.a., 1764.

Price: US$551.20 + shipping

Description: The Second Edition. 2 Bde. 1 Bl., XXXVI, 424 S., (16) S. Index; 1 Bl., 446 S., (23) S. Index. Mit 1 Frontsipiz (Porträt) und 16 teils gefalteten Kupfern nach Hogarth, gestoch. von Mynde. Ldr.-Bde. der Zeit mit je 2 Rückenschildern und Rückenvergoldung. (Kanten leicht berieben und gelenke leicht angeplatzt. Je 2 Exlibris auf Vorsätzen (davon eines aus einer englischen Adelsbibliothek). Sehr vereinzelte saubere Bleistiftnotizen von alter Hand. Vorsätze mit Leimschatten, sauberes Exemplar). Sprache: englisch.

Seller: Biblion Antiquariat, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland

Butler, Samuel; Annotated By Zachary Grey,. HUDIBRAS, in Three Parts.with Large Annotations and Preface By Zachary Grey. for C. Hitch, G. Hawkins and Others, London, 1764.

Price: US$580.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 2nd edition in two volumes, 424pp., index, 446pp., index, engraved frontispiece by Vertue in volume one of Butler with an engraved plates by Hogarth, bound in original full calf, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, front free endpaper loose, contemporary armorial bookplate of William Danby. It was these illustrations which Horace Walpole notes "marked him, Hogarth, as a man above the common" and established his reputation. Grey's annotated edition first appeared in 1744, and held first place for a half centruy. A beautiful set, internally fresh.

Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.