Baldwin M L (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Lacks front board, rear board full brown leather with rubbed corners, spine strip with five raised bands and vertical crack, previous owner's name to front end paper, very readable copy worthy of restoration. In protective sleeve. with copperplate engravings (illustrator).…

London, printed for D. Browne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Shuckburgh, G. Hawkins, J. and R. Tonson M. Cooper, B. Dod, R. Baldwin, E. Dilly, J. Richardson, T. Lowndes, and C. Bathurst in Fleet-Street, 1761. XI, 401, 15 nn. S. Mit 1 Porträt als Frontispiz (gestochen von J. van der Gucht) u. 16 Kupfer-Taf. (davon 5 gefaltet). Kl.-8vo (16,5 x 10 cm). Ldr. d. Zt. Satirisches Gedicht aus der Zeit des Englischen Bürgerkrieges. Samuel Butler (1612-1680), erklärter Royalist, setzte vor allem die "Roundheads", die Anhänger des Parlaments ins Lächerliche, und, wenn auch in milderer Form, die Partei Karls I. Mit der Titelfigur, Ritter Sir Hudibras (Presbyterianer) schuf Butler eine Titelfigur von pastoser Grobheit, die ständig mit seinem Knappen, einem Independenten, im Streit liegt. Diese "schärfste und derbste Verspottung des Puritanismus seiner Zeit" (KNLL III,424) soll sogar von König Karl II. häufiger zitiert worden sein. - William Hogarth (1697-1764), Maler u. Graphiker, prangerte in brillanten sozialkritischen Gemälden u. Kupferstichen die (Un-) Sitten u. Gebräuche seiner Zeit schonungslos u. mit beißender Ironie an. - Leder beschabt, Vorderdeckel lose, Besitzvermerk von alter Hand aV (Richard Kelsall's Book 1771).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Fifth. Brown 'suede' type brown boards, their surface chipped and rubbed with edgewear, particularly on four front corners. The solid spine with five raised bands and leather label lettered in gilt is a lighter colour and soft suede in texture. Internally evidence of professional restoration of front and rear gutters; the front free endpaper with three paragraphs of writing, two in pen, one in pencil, dated 1933 . The lightly soiled engraved frontis has six bookworm holes partly affecting pages as far as the letter G (alphabetical); spotty title page chipped on edges and a 1 cm x 5 mm scribble near rmiddle; preliminary pages soiled as far as 'Ale' and generally clean and unmarked thereafter. Unpaginated. Frontis + 12 folding plates. Last entry: 'Zylosteum' followed by grubby six page Latin Index, then nine page index of plants mentioned, one page ad (with short edge tear) + two page list of plants engraved and described. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…