Author: BUTLER (Samuel)
Title: Hudibras, A Poem... with Notes, selected from Grey and other Authors. To which are prefixed, a Life of the Author, and a preliminary Discourse on the Civil War. A New Edition, embellished with Engravings.
Description: Printed by W. Lewis... for Thomas M'Lean. 1819. New Edition, 2 vols., lxxiv,444; 494pp., with the Easton Neston Library shelve labels, 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J. Clark, letterpress paper badly foxed in places, cont. straight-grain mid-brown morocco, spines with wide low raised bands with gilt fasces decoration, gilt lettered direct in second and fourth compartments, remainder filled with gilt tools (palmettes, volutes, acanthus, leaves, dots, roundels), sides panelled with outer border and large lozenge, outer border with blind rules, narrow gilt chevron, blind strapwork, and palmette rolls, lozenge border connected at its points to outer border and in the same style but with blind scrolling vine foliage roll at inner edge, central roll on turn-ins, red endpapers, a.e.g. small scuff to lower board of vol. I, minor rubbing. Tooley 141.

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