HANDSOMELY BOUND SET OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES’ WRITINGS
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1893-9. Fourteen volumes. Small octavo, early three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $4500.
Handsomely bound “Riverside” edition, with engraved frontispiece portraits in three volumes.
With his poems, essays, novels, and short stories, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the three "medicated" novels. Father of the celebrated jurist of the same name, Holmes (1809-94) "reigned supreme in Boston society and club life and became the unofficial poet laureate of all important gatherings in the intellectual "hub of the Universe" (Hart, 176). Bookplates.
Interior fine, attractive art deco style bindings with four headcaps expertly repaired.