Author: Celt [editor] [ Farquarson, John ]
Title: The Cynic's Autograph Book
Description: Gay & Hancock, 1913, 7th edition. Cloth, VG. 97pp, b/w frontis & 5 b/w illustrations, cloth a little grubby, spaces for autographs unused, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ A collection of cynical & pessimistic epithets, with space underneath each to record the signature of someone to whom the quote applies. A random selection - 'Love is the wine of Life; Marriage the morning after', 'The Most changeable thing in the world is woman. The next is luck'.

Keywords: literature, humour, epithets