The poet at the breakfast-table / by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; with illustrations by H.M. Brock.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3001504
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 351, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Copy no. 56. Extra-illustrated. Ink-stamp on rear free endpaper: 'Extra illustrated by A.W. Waters, Leamington Spa'. Uniformly bound and shelved with extra-illustrated editions of Holmes' "The autocrat of the breakfast-table" (London, Boston and New York, 1902) and "The professor at the breakfast-table" (London, Boston and New York, 1902). Tipped-in to "The autocrat …": clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing the three vols. (price: £14/14/-"), annotated in ink in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966): "Bought May, 1928". Hand-coloured illustrations. Some pencil marginal annotations in the hand of Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966). Pencil page references on second rear free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century seal crest bookplate (not in Franks): 'Francis Augustus Brooks, M.D.'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century full brown morocco; single gilt fillets to form an inner and outer border; gilt stamped cornerpieces: flower stems; five raised bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The poet at the breakfast-table' and 'Holmes'; gilt rolled corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers; two brown ribbon markers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bayntun. Binder Bath. Eng.'.
Makers and roles
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), author Henry Matthew Brock (Cambridge 1875 - Cambridge 1960), illustrator