Samuel Butler - Hudibras - 1819

lxxiv, (ii), 444, 494 pp. - 2 uniform handgebonden banden in leer - 21,5 x 13 cm.
Bevat (7+5) = 12 handgekleurde gravures (compleet).
Conditie: Goed+. Ruggen vernieuwd in leer, vernieuwde schutbladen in kwaliteitspapier in ivoor. Scharnieren buiten- en binnenzijde prima, papier schoon en geurloos. Een mooie set.

De inhoud:
Advertisement / Life of Samuel Butler / Discourse on the English Civil War
Volume 1: Part I -Canto's 1,2,3 / Part II -Canto's 1,2 / Index. Tevens 7 handgekleurde gravures.
Volume 2: Part II -Canto 3 / Part III -Canto's 1,2,.3 / Of Hudibras to his Lady / The Lady's answer to the Knight / Index Tevens 5 handgekleurde gravures.
Alle Canto's worden gevolgd door '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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