The Professor at the Breakfast-Table with The Story of Iris
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1884.
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. Twenty-seventh edition, later printing. Green cloth with beveled edges, gilt-stamped winged urn on front board (blind-stamped on rear board), gilt-stamped spine title, top edge gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Owner's name and date inked on blank preliminary page, edges lightly rubbed, spine ends starting to fray, spine slightly cocked, still a very good copy.
Item #421765
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
birth name: Oliver Wendell Holmes
born: 8/29/1809
died: 10/7/1894
Biography
American physician, poet, and humorist chiefly remembered for a few poems and for his "Breakfast-table" series of essays. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore