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Jeschke Jádi Auctions Berlin

782 - Hogarth, William
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Estimate €200 - €300
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Hogarth, William Butler, Samuel Hudibras in three parts. Written in the time of the late wars. Corrected and amended. With extensive annotations and a preface by Zacharias Grey. The second edition. 3 parts in 2 volumes. With engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 (occasionally folded) copperplate plates by W. Hogarth. London, Hitch et al., 1764. 1 fol., XXXVI, 424 pp., 8 fol., 1 fol., 446 pp., 12 leaves. Contemporary leather binding with 2 coloured spines, richly gilt, cover fillets with corner fleurons and gilt edges (slightly bumped and scuffed). 2nd edition. – Graesse I, 583 ff. – Lowndes I, 335. – Famous British satirical comic epic by the poet Samuel Butler. He wrote the epic shortly after the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II. It served as a scathing, humorous reckoning with the defeated Puritans and Presbyterians who had ruled the country under Oliver Cromwell. The work castigates religious fanaticism, hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness and the lust for power, all of which are concealed behind a façade of moral piety. – Coat-of-arms bookplate on the inside cover, name on the endpaper, endpaper with a hole, partly slightly browned. The second edition. 3 parts in 2 volumes. With an engraved portrait frontispiece and 16 (occasionally folded) copper plates by W. Hogarth. Cont. leather with two coloured back patches, richly embroidered, lid fillets with corner fleurons and raised-edge trim (slightly bumped and scuffed). - A famous British satirical comic epic by the poet Samuel Butler. He wrote the epic shortly after the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II. It served as a scathing, humorous reckoning with the defeated Puritans and Presbyterians who had ruled the country under Oliver Cromwell. The work lambasts religious fanaticism, hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness and the lust for power that lurk behind moral piety. - Coat-of-arms bookplate on the inside cover, name on the endpaper, endpaper with a hole, slightly browned in places. This lot is subject to standard tax. A 24.95% buyer’s premium is payable on the hammer price, and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offset Prints, Photographs) is payable on the final invoice amount within the European Union. This lot is subject to the standard tax regime. A 24.95% buyer’s premium applies to the hammer price, and 7% (books and art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints and photographs) applies to the final invoice amount within the European Union.
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Auction time 10/24/2026 at 10:00 AM
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