Williamson wrote this nine years after the publication of his book, hence it is possible some one other than Berry was the friend.      While I have wide-ranging interests my chief preoccupation has been with English literature, as will already have been seen in my discussion of the Hilles, Dickens, and Williamson bookplates. I proceed with the names of others connected to English literature, copies of whose books with their bookplates we own. Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) was not only Chief Secretary for Ireland, but also author of two volumes of essays and three literary biographies. His bookplate was on the first edition of Robert Browning's Dramatic Idylls. Second Series ( 1880).

Previous (This is page 2)  Next