Samuel Butler - Hudibras - 1819

lxxiv, (ii), 444, 494 pp. - 2 uniform hardcover bindings in leather - 21.5 x 13 cm.
Contains (7+5) = 12 hand-coloured engravings (complete).
Condition: Good+. Spines renewed in leather, renewed endpapers in ivory-quality paper. Joints on the outside and inside in excellent condition, paper clean and fragrance-free. A beautiful set.

The contents:
Advertisement / Life of Samuel Butler / Discourse on the English Civil War
Volume 1: Part I - Cantos 1,2,3 / Part II - Cantos 1,2 / Index. Also 7 hand-coloured engravings.
Volume 2: Part II - Cantos 3 / Part III - Cantos 1,2,3 / Of Hudibras to his Lady / The Lady's answer to the Knight / Index Also 5 hand-coloured engravings.
All Cantos are followed by 'Notes'.

'Hudibras is a satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.
The story shows Hudibras, a Cromwellian knight and colonel in the New Model Army, being regularly defeated and humiliated, as in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.'

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