IMPORTANT JANE AUSTEN ASSOCIATED ANTIQUARIAN VOLUME OWNED BY HER FATHER, Samuel Butler, Hudibras. I Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended with Additions. To which are added Annotations, With an Exact Index of the Whole. London: Bo. Moote, 1732. Illustrated with ten plates, nine being by William Hogarth including four folding. Bound in period vellum. Front pastedown with the stag-on-crown-mural bookplate of George Austen, Jane Austen's father.
Catalogue Note: Little has been recorded about the 18th century books that Jane Austen might have read in her father's library, which included the present newly discovered volume. Numerous pages contain vertical inked marginal lines marking favorite lines or passages, possibly annotated by Jane Austen herself.
Very good condition, interior tight and mostly clean, one plate with archival tape repair, some expected soiling and light splits to vellum.
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