Hudibras, Poëme de Samuel Butler, écrit pendant les guerres civiles d'Angleterre, et traduit en vers français par J. Towneley, officier anglais au service de France; avec des remarques de Larcher, traducteur d'Hérodote, et quinze figures d'après Hogarth [3 volumes] - 1819

London: Jombert, Libraire, 1819. Very Good -. Seconde Édition. Imprint lists London and Paris. 3 volumes ([2], xxxvi, 356 p.; [2], 464 p.; [2], 363, [1] p.): frontispiece portrait of the author in vol. 1, and 14 additional plates (part folded); 17 cm. Contemporary half dark green morocco; white paper with green and gilt pattern over boards. Gilt-tooled red morocco labels at head of spine reading: "Butler's Hudibras -- Towneley" with volume numbers. Gilt- and blind-ruled borders on remaining part of spines. All page edge marbled; marbled endpapers. Printed with English and French texts facing one another. Includes errata. Inscription on blank leaf following front endpapers in vol. 1: "John B. Ingles to Mr. Durham 22 June 1861." A very popular translation into French of Samuel Butler's poem Hudibras by John Towneley (1697-1782), who was said to have begun his translation in response to Voltaire's declaration of it as untranslatable. In Very Good- Condition: corners and edges rubbed, with slight loss at head of spines; boards are lightly rubbed; spines are lightly sunned, with the green leather somewhat faded, but the red still bright; small scrape on front free endpaper of vol. 1; old dampstain at upper edge of frontispiece and first few leaves of vol. 1, not touching images or text; vol. 1 hinge has small archival repair; occasional light foxing; a few small pencil marks in the margins; otherwise clean and tight.