The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Artists' Edition 15 volume set

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Verlag: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston and New York, 1892

Beschreibung

Octavos. Extensively illustrated with steel portraits and photogravures. Bound into volume one is a signed letter from Holmes (ASL) dated Boston, Jan 16 1858. Beautifully bound in 3/4 red leather with marble boards and endpapers. 5 Raised leather bands to spines. Gilt top foredges, as well as gilt spine lettering and floral design. Light toning to the spine. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards. Limited to 750 sets of the Artists's Edition, this being set 170. There is a gouge to the edge of the front board of volumes 8 and 9 and to the top of vol 13. Small tear to front endpaper of vol 9. Volume I: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Vol II: The Professor at the Breakfast Table. Vol III: The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Vol IV: Over the Teacups. Vol V: Elsie Venner. Vol VI: The Guardian Angel. Vol VII: A Mortal Antipathy. Vol VIII: Pages from an Old Volume of Life. Vol IX: Medical Essays. Vol X: Our Hundred Days in Europe. Vol XI: Ralph Waldo Emerson John Lothrop Motley Two Memoirs. Vol XII: The Poetical Works Volume I. Volume XIII: The Poetical Works Volume II. The final two volumes at Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John T. Morse, Jr in two volumes. BAL 9214. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61456

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes Artists' ...

Verlag: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Boston and New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1892

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good+

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: Artists' Edition.