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Lot 252
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[FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS]. BUTLER, Samuel (1612-1680). Hudibras, a Poem... With historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Selected from Grey & Other Authors. To Which are Prefixed, a Life of the Author, and a Preliminary Discourse on the Civil War. London: Akerman et al, 1822.
2 volumes, 8vo (211 x 129 mm). 12 hand-colored engraved plates by J. Clark. (Some offsetting and minor spotting.) 19th-century red straight-grained morocco gilt, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, the rest gilt-decorated, edges gilt concealing DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS IN EACH VOLUME in three panels of different characters interacting (joints cracking and some minor wear to extremities, a touch of soiling). Provenance: William Harman (signatures to title-pages); armorial bookplates. “New Edition."