The Author’s Most Famous Book
The Way of All Flesh.
London: Grant Richards, 1903.
Price: $900.00
About the item
First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. The Author’s Most Famous Book. Original burgundy cloth, t.e.g. Faint toning to spine, minor rubbing to extremities. Very good plus. Bookplate. Boxed.
Item #346219
Butler's posthumously-published semi-autobiographical novel, a satire of Victorian mores that ensured his lasting fame. A.A. Milne called it “the second-best novel in the English language” (“A Household Book”, Not That It Matters, 1919).
With an elaborate mock heraldic bookplate of Samuel Butler, motto In Vino Veritas, likely that of his grandfather, Samuel Butler, D.D. (1774-1839), longtime head of Shrewsbury School and, at the end of his career, Bishop of Litchfield.
