Description
Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, New York: Hurst & Company Publishers, C. 1860, paper-back leather, 420 pp, 7 x 5", 12mo. In fair condition. Paper boards are covered in leather, possibly hand-bound. Head and tail of spine collapsed, binding exposed. Leather is chipped and bent at edges. Red-rot present. Top edge of text-block gilt. Black painted title lightly dulled, but still legible. Both gutters split, binding mesh exposed. Previous ownership and signature on front fly. Light toning and foxing through text-block. A complete work, all pages present. Some instances of marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) was a writer, doctor, and educator born in Cambridge, MA. He earned a BA at Harvard University in 1829 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1836. He was part of a group of New England based writers called the Fireside Poets, which included William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. He also developed a friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson. FORN-MSB-0823-0738-HK486
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