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Lot 286

BUTLER (SAMUEL)]
Two Letters, One from John Audland a Quaker, to William Prynne. The Other, William Prynnes Answer. By the Author of Hudibras

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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[BUTLER (SAMUEL)]

Two Letters, One from John Audland a Quaker, to William Prynne. The Other, William Prynnes Answer. By the Author of Hudibras, first edition, variant with p.22 numbered correctly, ink stamp in blank margin of final leaf, modern green half morocco [Wing B B6336A], small folio, Jonathan Edwin, 1672

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A satire on the writings of William Prynne and the Quaker John Audland. The opening of "Prynne's Answer" reads "Thou Quaking Quack, Jesuitical Romish Franciscan Frog... Thou art the Devils dice-box which he SHAKES, rattles, wags, to gull, cheat, delude, and seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed, English Nation". Butler infamously said of Prynne that his "weakness was to cast holy things, not unto dogs, but into doggerel". Scarce, ABPC recording only one copy in the past thirty-five years.

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