Hudibras, in three parts; written in the time of the late wars: corrected and amended. With large annotations, and a preface, by Zachary Grey, LL.D. ... The third edition

London: C. Bathurst, C. Strahan [et al.], 1772. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xiv, xxxvi, 424, [16]; [2], 446, [23];engraved frontispiece portrait, 16 engraved plates after Hogarth (5 folding). Together with: The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras. Published from the original manuscripts, formerly in the possession of W. Longueville, Esq.; with notes by R. Thyer... London, J. & R. Tonson, 1759, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [40], 429; [8], 512. In all, 4 volumes, uniformly bound in ca. 1800 full tree calf, smooth gilt-decorated spines, green morocco lettering pieces; slight edge weaer, otherwise a near fine set. The latter contains a 27-p. list of subscribers, and a number of hitherto unpublished speeches, poems, essays, and approximately 120 prose "characters," being descriptions of various personalities and professions, such as a modern politician, a court-beggar, a small poet, an astrologer, a wooer, a sot, and a modern critic. The papers from which these were published were in the hands of Butler's first biographer, W. Longueville, at the time of Butler's death in 1680, and were subsequently bequeathed to his son, Charles, and thence to John Clark, who consented to see them published. NCBEL II, 437.