1764 · London
by [BUTLER, Samuel]
London: C. Hitch, G. Hawkins, C. Bathurst, and others, 1764. Some wear to bindings, soft crease to frontispiece, pale browning and occasional foxing, but generally a handsome and clean set. Two volumes, 8vo. Fine engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Butler by Vertue and 16 engraved plates after William Hogarth by J. Mynde, some folding. Contemporary English speckled calf, spines in six compartments with five raise bands, morocco lettering-pieces. Second edition, corrected and amended with long annotations by Zachary Grey. Includes the complete suite of Hogarth's humorous illustrations.
(Inventory #: 406174)