Author: (JOHNSON, Samuel) B., A. [BIRRELL, Augustine]
Title: Aphorisms on Authors and Their Ways; with Some General Observations on the Humours, Habits, and Methods of Composition of Poets --Good, Bad, and Indifferent. Diligently Collected from Johnson's "Lives
Description: [London], Privately Printed, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Original drab boards, printed paper label to spine and front cover; 60 pages. One of only 100 copies printed. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Burrell on the front endpaper: "To M.A.R./from an old ruined Tenant--/now reduced from an 'original'/Author to a Compiler/AB/January 1918." While we don't know who "M.A.R." is, the inscription is an interesting one as Birrell, a British Liberal Party politician who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property and for extending university education for Catholics. Near Fine .

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