Dorothy Q. A Family Portrait
$1,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller
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First separate printing. Text in two columns on a single sheet, laid paper, comprised of 9 eight-line stanzas. Signed the plate by Holmes below the text and dated May 22, 1884. 1 vols. Folio 14 x 11 inches . Old folds, very small closed tears, minor foxing. BAL 9170A. Item #321042 In the poem, Holmes muses about a portait of his great-grandmother Dorothy Quincy 1709-1762 , which hung near his writing desk;
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