The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. with an introduction by Van Wyck Brooks and illustrations by R. J. Holden New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1955.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 705.
Quarto. 300 pp. Publisher's full cream buckram over beveled boards, brown leather label to spine lettered in gilt, covers embedded with labels bearing drawings by the artist, edges speckled brown. Spine is tanned, one small faint stain to front free endpaper, else a fine copy. With original, very slightly sunned, slipcase.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) physician and poet, was one of the most successful American poets of the nineteenth century. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table is perhaps is most famous work.
Newman & Wiche, 257.
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3993
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