Item #77516 Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Samuel BUTLER.

Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars.

Item #77516

(HOPKINSON, FRANCIS). (DUCHE, JACOB). [BUTLER, Samuel]. Hudibras. In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. Corrected and Amended: with Additions. To Which Are Added Annotations, with an Exact Index to the Whole. Adorn'd with a New Set of Cuts, Design'd and Engrav'd by Mr. Hogarth. London: Printed for D. Midwinter and A. Ward..., 1732. [2],214,197-400,[16 (of 24)]pp. Seven plates (including frontispiece). Lacks the final four leaves of the index. 12mo. Contemporary calf, rebacked, with original backstrip laid down. Light shelfwear, corners worn. Contemporary bookplate and presentation inscriptions (see below). One plate torn, lacking the lower left quarter of the sheet (repaired with blank paper). One page with early manuscript marginalia. Scattered light foxing. About very good. ESTC N17078. DAB IX, pp.220-23, & DAB V, 476-77. ANB 11, pp.190-92, & ANB 7, pp.4-5. A remarkable association copy, uniting two significant members of the Revolutionary generation who were also united by family intermarriage, and whose friendship was riven by their divergent loyalties during the American Revolution. This copy bears the bookplate of Francis Hopkinson (1737-91), signer of the Declaration of Independence, author and poet, composer, judge, and Pennsylvania government official. The ANB calls him "arguably the most versatile American of the revolutionary generation." This book was given to Hopkinson by the noted minister, Jacob Duche, who would shortly thereafter marry Hopkinson's sister, and who famously broke with the cause of liberty during the Revolution. A front fly leaf bears the presentation inscription, "The Present of Mr. Jacob Duche Junr. to Francis Hopkinson December 1757." The same hand has signed the titlepage with the names of Jacob Duche and Francis Hopkinson and the date 1757. On that page Duche's name has been crossed out, indicating that the inscriptions are likely in the hand of Duche, and that he crossed out his own name on the titlepage when he gave the book to Francis Hopkinson. Jacob Duche and Francis Hopkinson had a long and complicated friendship, dating back at least to their college days at the College of Philadelphia (later the University of Pennsylvania). In 1760, three years after giving him this book, Duche married Hopkinson's sister, Elizabeth. Francis Hopkinson.

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