The autocrat of the breakfast-table. By Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Category
Books
Date
1859
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 3248873
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii,302,[2] p. ; 18cm (8vo). Bookseller’s endpaper blindstamp: W.H. Smith & Son, London. Priced in pencil: 3/6. Provenance: inscribed on t.p. "Cath: Vaughan from Rev L. Bernays Jan 14 1859" [i.e. Catherine Maria Vaughan, née Stanley (d.1899)]; also inscribed "Stamford, Weybridge" [i.e. William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford (1850-1910)], Binding: publisher's burgundy cloth, blind stamped device, gold lettered spine. Binder's label at rear: Wm. Hunter, … Edinburgh.
Makers and roles
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)