The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

$25 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859. An early reprint of the 1858 first edition. 12mo 20cm . In original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; light blue endpapers; 2pp of ads at rear; viii, 373, 3 ; 8 plates with tissue guards. Ex libris of Baxter Carding, Centralia, Ill. or Clover Hill N.J. A handsome copy with the title page in black and red, slightly rubbed, internally browned,

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