BOOTHBY (Brooke), Sir: - Fables and Satires. With a Preface on the Esopean Fable.

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsey and Company, for Archibald Constable..., 1809. 2 volumes in 1. 8vo, 184 x 112 mms., pp. [lxiii - lxiii [lxiv blank], 192; x, 241 [241 blank], bound in contemporary half plum calf, gilt spine; binding a little worn, but a good copy. The Quarterly Review noticed the work in 1810, beginning with this amusing observation: "Although the well-known division of authors into writers for fame - writers for bread - and writers for both is tolerably comprehensive on the whole; yet the classification, we conceive, may be conveniently extended, by adding to it the farther division, of writers from ennui.... The pupil of the School of Ennui is usually guiltless, in his outset, of any designs upon the attention of the public; but his little performances accumulate by degrees...; he induces a good-natured friend with a recital...and his good-natured friend can scarcely refuse to praise [the work]: thus encouraged, by a person of the most unequivocal and sincerity, the author deliberates no longer - he sends for a printer, rushes into the jaws of the press, and becomes a lamental victim...."

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