The poet at the breakfast-table.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1870
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3065562
Summary
Bibliographic description
320p. . 8vo.. MS. marks and notes.. Provenance: Twentieth-century pictorial armorial bookplate, a re-working of an earlier William Bell Scott pictorial Trevelyan bookplate (Franks 29799) of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan (1797-1879), lettered: Charles & Mary Trevelyan [i.e. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1870-1958), & Mary Katharine, (m.1904).] Arms: Trevelyan impaling Bell. Not in Franks.. Binding: Half calf; marbled boards and endpapers; gilt tooled on spine; spine labels, gilt lettered. Binding uniform with F.3 and 5, also by Holmes.
Makers and roles
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)