The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1891.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. Later Printing. Two volumes. Half leather and marbled papercovered boards, red spine labels gilt. Moderate wear to the spine labels and corners, an about very good set. Tipped to the pastedown of the first volume is a brief note from Holmes: "Dear Sir, It gives me pleasure to comply with your slight request. Yours very truly, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston May 8th 1892."
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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