Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To which are added Annotations, With an Exact Index to the Whole,

Bookseller Notes

Butler's mock-heroic poem looking back at the English Civil War. First published in 1663, 64 and 78, this is the first edition to contain the classic illustrations by William Hogarth, an early project for the artist who was then in his twenties. 'One can see why Hogarth liked this poem. Sceptical and pessimistic though it is, it bursts with oddity, eccentricity, farce, caricature and emblem - the exuberant energy and the hidden 'difficulty' that mark Hogarth's own art' (Jenny Uglow: Hogarth: A Life and a World, 1997 p. 112).