The autocrat of the breakfast-table.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1883
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 3231237
Summary
Bibliographic description
New and revised edition,. with illustrative notes. ix, 321 p. ;. 20 cm. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of William Rowley [i.e. Lt.-Col. William Chambré Rowley, 6th Baron Langford of Summerhill (1849-1931)]; part of Mrs. M. E. Packer donation, March, 2016 (From the collection of Lady Langford (née Hon. Mabel Maud Legh.) Binding: nineteenth-century brown morocco; triple gold fillet border; five false bands; gold tooled spine and turn-ins; all edges gold. Stamped: Bound by Riviere & Son.
Makers and roles
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)