Signed by Holmes, Jr
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Every Man His Own Boswell.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1859.
First edition, Large Paper printing. 8 plates, integral but not reckoned in pagination. Title-page in black and red. [ii], viii, 373 pp. 1 vols. Tall 8vo (8-5/16 x 5-1/2 inches). Signed by Holmes, Jr. Publisher’s beveled maroon pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blindstamped frame to covers, a.e.g. Head of spine repaired, front joint split, inner hinges strengthened with binder's tape. Neat contemporary ownership marks to preliminaries. Internally fine BAL 9093, binding A; Currier-Tilton pp 73-4. Item #235316
Signed in blue ink and dated May 23, 1930, by then Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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