Holmes, Oliver W.:

$1,250 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE IRON GATE, AND OTHER POEMS. First edition, second impression (1012 copies printed). Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "Mr. Edmund Routledge With the compliments of Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston, March 1st 1881 written with the gold pen with wh. the Autocrat was written." The recipient was a member of the Routledge publishing family (who brought out collections of Holmes' poetry in England) and editor of Every Boy's Magazine.

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