• Title: Hudibras; with Notes and a Literary Memoir by the Rev. Treadway Russel Nash. 
• Author: Samuel Butler.
• Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, New York.
• Publication Date: 1851.
• Format: hardcover; blind-stamped boards; gilt titles on spine.
• Length: 498 pages
• Size: approximately 4 1/2" by 6 3/4"
• Illustrations: Illustrated with portraits
• Description: Hudibras is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660. The story shows Hudibras, a knight and colonel in the Parliamentary army, being regularly defeated, sometimes by the skills and courage of women, and ends with a witty and detailed declaration that women are superior to men.
• Provenance: The following is inscribed on the first front facing end paper: “Lewis C. Randolph, Ridgway, Nov 4th, 1853.”
• Condition: The binding is intact with minor weakness. The front hinge is beginning to split on the outside cover. The cover is worn, stained, and faded. Damp-stained page edges. The spine is frayed at the top and bottom. The first front facing page has the lower half missing. Pages are foxed.