The autocrat of the breakfast table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Boston: Phillips, Samson & Co., 1859. First edition, large paper issue, BAL's state 'B' without illustrations , BAL's binding 'A'; 8vo, pp. viii, 373; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine, a.e.g.; some minor rubbing, one central signature starting, else a very good, sound copy. According to contemporary evidence … Holmes was displeased with the illustrations and ordered them excised. BAL 9093. Item #20253

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