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Birrell, Augustine : Essays About Men, Women, and Books

Elliot Stock, London, England, 1894

Large Paper Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Deckled edges. 7 1/4" x 9." 233 pages, complete. Signed and inscribed by the author on half-title in black ink: "Edward J. Leveson, from his Friend and Brother Johnsonian, Augustine Birrell." Birrell has written below this inscription a quote by Samuel Johnson, "The world passes away We are / passing with it; but there is / doubtless another world which / will endure forever [?]. Let us all / [...] for it. I am [...], 'Sam. Johnson.'" Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Some wear to corners, bottom edge, and head and tail of spine. Slight splitting to tail of spine. Pages are age-toned and have small, occasional marks. Bumping to deckled edges. Offsetting to front and back endpapers. A Very Good copy. A collection of essays about people and subjects of the arts and humanities by Augustine Birrell (1850-1933), a British author, lawyer, and politician who represented the British Liberal Party. The following are the essay titles: "Dean Swift," "Lord Bolingbroke," "Sterne," "Dr. Johnson," "Richard Cumberland," "Alexander Knox and Thomas De Quincey," "Hannah More," "Marie Bashkirtseff," "Sir John Vanebrugh," "John Gay," "Roger North's Autobiography," "Books Old and New," "Book-Binding," "Poets Laureate," "Parliamentary Candidates," "The Bona-Fide Traveller," "'Hours in a Library,'" "Americanisms and Briticisms," and "Authors and Critics.". Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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