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Prose observations / Samuel Butler ; edited with an introd. and commentary by Hugh De Quehen.

Title
Prose observations / Samuel Butler ; edited with an introd. and commentary by Hugh De Quehen.
Author
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680
Publication
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

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Additional Authors
De Quehen, Hugh
Description
lx, 429 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This is an edition of all the prose which survives in manuscript of Samuel Butler and of other, hitherto unpublished, material which survives in transcript. It consists almost entirely of the contents of two commonplace books, one in Butler's own hand, the other transcribed by his friend William Longueville"--Jacket.
Series Statement
Oxford English texts
Subject
Commonplace books
Genre/Form
Commonplace-books.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Classified prose observations from Butler's manuscript -- Unclassified prose observations from Butler's manuscript -- Prose and verse from William Longueville's commonplace book.
ISBN
0198127286 (Oxford University Press) :
LCCN
^^^77030357^
OCLC
3480972
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library