HUDIBRAS - Written in the Time of the LATE WARS - In Three Parts

Butler, Samuel)

Verlag: Printed for John Baker, London, 1711

Beschreibung

Three Parts in One. Corrected and Ammended, Adorned with Cuts. 10 interesting engravings and portrait, one fold-out. . An early edition. A satiricle poem intended to ridicule the Puritans. Hudibras sets out with his squire, in the manner of Don Quixote, to inforce abuses of the laws against the popular sports and amusements in Cromwell's time. A clean copy in contemporary full panel calf binding which is worn with boards showing through in some places with free endpapers but without pastedowns. The title has become a synonem for mock-heroic. Thick book.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers bu.2794

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: HUDIBRAS - Written in the Time of the LATE WARS - In Three Parts
• Verlag: Printed for John Baker, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1711
• Einband: Full Leather
• Zustand: Good Minus
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Poetry
  • 18th Century