Essays by Birrell Augustine, Signed (3 results)

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY with Author's signed note pasted-in. 8vo. green cloth hardback, gilt. 214pp. plus 1p. advertisements at end. Many newspaper cuttings concerned with the Bodleian and an engraved print portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley pasted-in at front and rear. A signed note from the Author is tipped-in to ffep along with a typewritten note about him from the DNB (please see photo). Bookplate to front pastedown of Herbert Grant Smith, member and editor of the Charles Lamb Society and modern armorial bookplate to verso of ffep. Untrimmed foredge a little foxed. Gilt titles to spine very faded and green cloth rather faded with rubbing to edges. Overall a Good Association Copy. (Shelf 200) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

xxii, 294 / xi, 254 pagestrimmed paper on u; both volumes with engraved frontispices under tissue-guards, many illustrations in the text and on plates. - Gilt-decorated and -titled brown half-morocco bindings over 5 raised bands (signed 'Douglas & Foulis[,] Edinburgh') with brown-cloth panels, leather corners and ocre-marbled endpapers, topedges gilt; 8vo.(ca. 19 x 11 x 4 cm; ca. 1 kg.). *** 4th EDITION ('ESSAY. . . '; 1st: 1899) / FIRST EDITION ('LAST ESSAY. . .'); FIRST EDITIONS ILLUSTRATED THUS, LUXURIOUSLY HANDBOUND BY DOUGLAS & FOULIS. - Leather corners minimally rubbed, frontpanel of Vol. '1' slightly sunned; A BEAUTIFUL SET.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 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.". Inscribed by Author(s).