Books with author Oliver Wendell Holmes Holmes

Houghton Mifflin had published these Holmes texts with three Pyle illustrations in 1892, as vol. XIII of the Collected Works of Holmes Morse & Brincklé: Howard Pyle, A Record etc. ..., p.174 . In 1893, H.M. published a limited edition in vellum and this trade edition of the three poems, both with sixty-four new illustrations - 61 pen-and-ink and three reproductions of paintings black-and-white in this edition , and thirty-one new decorations, head- and tailpieces, none of these 95 items previously published. Morse et al., op. cit., pp.175-177 for the edition in vellum, pagination matches this trade edition which Morse does not note . Slight separation between frontispiece and title page; otherwise very well-preserved. Frontispiece; 3-131 pages. original cloth, top edge tinted silver, title stamped in silver on front cover with similarly stamped cover and spine decoration.. small 8vo..

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