Right Hon Augustine Birrell (6 results)

Condition: Good. General wear to boards with spotting. Content mainly clean with even toning. No DJ.

1st edition. Small 4to. ix + 206pp. B/w. frontispiece. Occasional slight foxing. F.e.ps. browned with ownership inscription to front f.e.p. Original cloth backed boards with red-lettered paper title label to pale grey spine, slightly rubbed to edges. US$15.

ix[i], 206pp, 4 plates including frontis. Original cloth ĵ style, paper boards, printed paper spine label, uncut. Spine and label slightly discoloured, corners worn, eps browned, minimal random foxing.

Hardback. Frontispiece and vignette title by A. S. Hartrick, coloured illustrations by Edmun J. Sullivan (illustrator). First Thus Edition. Undated presumed first thus edition which was first published in this format in 1906 Hardback clothbound with decorative gilt tooling to cover and spine Top edge gilt to pages Portrait tissue guarded frontispiece and vignette to title page Additional eight colour illustrated plates Light shelf wear and rubbing Fadingdiscolouration to spine Gilt tooling still relatively bright Toning to endpapers Cracking to gutter Occasional foxing to pages throughout Overall very good condition xxxvii 286 pp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. [Birrell, Right Hon. Augustine]. Obiter Dicta. London: Elliot Stock, 1885. Hardback, Good. Green cloth, bevelled edges, bumped to corners and rubbed along edges with a few small mamrks on reverse. Gilt decoration and lettering. Binding sound. Floral decoration to endpapers. Pencil smudge and a few foxing spots to ffep. Heavier foxing to half-title. Title page lettering in red and black. 233pp., contents clean and bright. Foxing to ear endpapers. Anonymously published essays on Carlyle ; Browning ; Truth-hunting ; Actors ; A rogue's memoirs ; The via media ; Falstaff. Augustine Birrell KC (19 January 1850 20 November 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property, and for extending university education for Catholics, but was criticised for failing to take action against the rebels before the Easter Rising, leading to his subsequent resignation. A barrister by training, he was also an author, noted for humorous essays. Obiter Dicta was his first published work. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies. Frontispiece Portrait. 206 pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. 1 vols. 4to. Cream cloth, t.e.g., rest uncut. Bookplate of Alan Thomas Frontispiece Portrait. 206 pp. Printed by the Chiswick Press. 1 vols. 4to First edition, number 64 of 100 signed copies.