SASSOON’S COPY
BUTLER, Samuel.
Hudibras, in three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars … with Annotations and an Index.
London, Thomas Maiden for Vernor & Hood [and others], 1802.
12mo, pp. viii, 384, [16], with 12 wood-engraved plates; pp. 115–122 re-inserted; plates lightly toned; bound in contemporary sheep, rebacked at an early date in sheep with spine gilt-ruled in compartments, gilt green morocco lettering-piece to spine; recornered, endpapers renewed, somewhat worn; 5 lines of text erased on p. 115, early ink bibliographical note to front pastedown, booklabel of Siegfried Sassoon and ink ownership inscription ‘S.L. Sassoon. / 1902.’ to front endpapers.
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Hudibras, in three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars … with Annotations and an Index.
An illustrated pocket edition of Butler’s Hudibras, the most celebrated satire and one of the most influential poems of the seventeenth century, owned by a young Siegfried Sassoon.
The inscription of the future war poet Sassoon (1886–1967), dated 1902, places this volume among the books owned by Sassoon when a schoolboy at the beginning of his time at Marlborough College; the later booklabel suggests that it remained with him into his adult life.
