Hudibras
BUTLER], [Samuel
[In Three Parts, complete]. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended, with Several Additions and Annotations. [With 'The Author's Life'].
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE 'LIFE'
Published: [First Part] Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1704
Stock code: 6962
Price: £176.00
3 parts in 1 vol., 8vo., some moderate age-staining throughout, neat eighteenth-century inscriptions (some dated) on endpapers, front free endpaper expertly mounted, small contemporary signature on title of first part; contemporary panelled calf elaborately tooled in blind, back with four raised bands, uncut, first compartment replaced in calf to style, joints rubbed, lower outer corner frayed, a good, sound copy in a sympathetically restored contemporary binding.
Contains the First Part [with 'The Author's Life'], Printed by E.P. for Geo. Sawbridge in Little-Britain, 1704; the Second Part [with 'An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophel', first added in 1678], Printed for R. Chiswel, G. Sawbridge, R. Wellington, and G. Wells, 1704; the Third and Last Part, Printed for Thomas Horne, at the South Entrance of the Royal Exchange, MDCCIV.Early collected edition of all three parts. In keeping with the so-called 'collected editions' of this period, each part retains its individual title and pagination; the first dition with continuous pagination did not appear until 1710. The Author's Life', ascribed by Oldys to Sir James Astrey, APPEARS HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME (the writer professes to supplement and correct the notice given in Wood's 'Athenae Oxonienses'.)CBEL, II: 260; Greco's Catalogue of the Severance Collection (Chapel Hill), 18.