Seven sheets of engravings from "Hudibras", some with one plate per sheet and some with two, the sheet size 24-3/4" x 19", including a "Frontispiece and its Explanation", and depicting various adventures of the subject, and including the related text. None are framed.
Deaccessioned from a Midwest institution. Hudibras was written between 1660 and 1680 as a satire on the Cromwellians and on the Presbyterian church written by a confirmed Royalist and Anglican. Hudibras, a colonel in the Cromwellian army, is involved in various comic misadventures and is shown to be stupid, greedy and dishonest. The poem is very well written in Chaucerian couplets and was popular for about 150 years, as long as its political attitudes were also popular. The Nineteenth Century saw the reinvention of Cromwell in the popular imagination from usurper and tyrant to heroic upholder of English freedom, and Hudibras was out.
200/400 Sold $46.00
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