Posthumous Works In Prose and Verse, Written in the time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. by Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly printed. With A Key to Hudibras [...]
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Posthumous Works In Prose and Verse, Written in the time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. by Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly printed. With A Key to Hudibras, by Sir Roger L’Estrange. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 12mo. f. [1] (plates), pp. [24], 279, [21], f. [1] (blank). Calf, gilded spine on 4 bars. Includes frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler, head- and tailpieces, initials. Owner's signature (edited) dated April 9th 1716 on last blank verso. Some of the parts have special title page and imprint dated 1714.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Literary hacks forged Samuel Butler, trading on his immense popularity. The present work is riddled with such ‘extras.’ Only three of the pieces are by Butler. See G. Watson & I. Willison (eds.), New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 5 vols. Cambridge, 1969-1974 for spurious attributions, and for Butler’s own forgeries of William Prynne, e.g., the tract ‘Mola asinaria.’ See ESTC, T217176. See also Bib# 4102850/Fr# 322 in this collection for a variant issue of the present edition.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039111379707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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Roger L'Estrange
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Samuel (pseud.) Butler
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Benjamin (engr.) Van der Gucht
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P. (engr.) Lilly
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Samuel Butler
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John Birkenhead
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- PWPosthumous Works in Prose and V...Samuel (pseud.) Butler, Roger L'Estrange
Posthumous Works in Prose and Verse, Written in the Time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. By Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly Printed. With A Key to Hudibras [...]
1 views - PWPosthumous Works In Prose and V...Samuel (pseud.) Butler, Roger L'Estrange, Benjamin (engr.) Van der Gucht, P. (engr.) Lilly
Posthumous Works In Prose and Verse, Written in the time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. by Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly printed. With A Key to Hudibras [...]
- PWPosthumous Works In Prose and V...Samuel Butler, John Birkenhead, Roger L'Estrange, Benjamin (engr.) Van der Gucht, P. (engr.) Lilly
Posthumous Works In Prose and Verse, Written in the time of the Civil Wars and Reign of K. Charles II. by Mr. Samuel Butler, Author of Hudibras. From Original MSS. and Scarce and Valuable Pieces formerly printed. With A Key to Hudibras [...]