Shelfmark
Ci.2.1.01 - Ci.2.1.02
Additional shelfmark
Go.8.14 - Go.8.15 (Copy 2)
Author
Title
Hudibras, in three parts, written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey ... Adorn'd with a new set of cuts. Vol. I [- II].
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : printed by J. Bentham, printer to the university, for W. Innys, A. Ward, Mess. J. and P. Knapton, D. Browne, S. Birt, T. Longman, T. Woodward, C. Hitch, J. Oswald, J. Shuckburgh, J. Hodges, E. Wicksteed, Mess. Ward and Chandler, G. Hawkins, Mess. J. and R. Tonson, M. Cooper, R. Wellington, and C. Bathurst, in London, 1744.
Physical description
2 v., plates : ports. (engraved) ; 21 cm (8vo)
Note
Anonymous author = Samuel Butler.
Note
With a frontispiece engraved portrait of the author by George Vertue, and plates after Hogarth's designs.
Note
The second volume is printed in London by J. Bettenham for the same booksellers.
Note
With a list of subscribers in vol. 1.
Note
Page-height c.21.5 cm., gutter size 18 mm. A large-paper variant has page-height c.24.5 cm., gutter size 22 mm.
Note
In verse.
Citation/references note
ESTC T2679
Additional physical form available
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 7652, no. 01).
Additional physical form available
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
Provenance
Storer bequest label dated 1800; bequeathed to Eton by Anthony Morris Storer in 1799.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of a bird of prey on a tree, with two daggers on either side, the shield surmounted by an elephant, with the motto "Nemo fidelior".
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplates of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Copy 2: Bookplate of Eton College School Library.
Binding
18th century red, gold-tooled morocco. Harleian style. Central ornament includes crown and acorn tools.
Binding
Copy 2: 18th century half brown calf; blue marbled paper covered boards.
Copy-specific note
Ms. prices.
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Pencil mark on flyleaf: "v.2. 50".
Copy-specific note
Copy 2: Bookseller's advertisement pasted onto flyleaf.
Subject
Satire, English.
Subject
English poetry Early modern, 1500-1700.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Bentham, Joseph, 1594? - 1671 printer.
Added entry--name
Storer, Anthony Morris, 1746 - 1799 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bettenham, James, ? - d. 1774 printer.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Identifier
B14239