1739 / SAMUEL BUTLER HUDIBRAS in Three Parts / English Civil War / Puritanism

  

Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To which is added, Annotations, with an exact Index to the Whole.

Alarm'd with a new Set of Cuts, Design'd and Engraved by Mr. (For condition please consult note at listing top). Gilt twin-line border to boards. Gilt title to spine on crimson red label. Five compartments with floral gilt embellishment.

Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Butler. Pictorial head and tail pieces. 9 plates - 4 of them foldouts. Dimensions: 16.3 x 10 x 3cm approx.

Poem, written in a mock-heroic. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum.

Around 1658-60, immediately before the restoration. As king in May 1660. Hudibras is a Presbyterian colonel.

His squire, Ralpho, is one of the Independents. Who follow a more radical version of puritanism, one far less formal and structured than Presbyterianism.

However, Butler's satire is not focused on details of their belief or theology. They regularly fall into heated argument with each other, but these arguments are never about faith or doctrine; they are always focused on the rules of argument and the definitions of words. It is noticeable that not once, in over 11,000 lines of satiric verse, does either of them laugh or smile.

0 November 1697 - 26 October 1764 was an English painter, engraver. Pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist.

And occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic. Like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". And he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress. (baptized 14 February 1613 - 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist.

He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical.