Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes / by John T. Morse, Jr. ; In two volumes.
Morse, John T., Jr
Category
Books
Date
1896
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3251230
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil marks (erased) on front free endpaper verso in vol. 1, including: "2 vols / 5/5/-", "4/4/x" and "496 [?]". Bookseller's pencil note (erased) on rear free endpaper in vol. 1, describing this copy and the number of extra illustrations. Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "1027H" and "56H". Pencil date on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "7/39". Pencil note below title on title page in vol. 1: "1809-1894 / aged 85". Pencil list of extra illustrations following list of contents in both vols. Pencil dots against entries in list of illustrations in both vols. $zOccasional pencil text underlining and annotations. Ephemera: (1) loosely inserted in vol. 1: portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes with pencil note on verso: "From Rookman / Sept 1892"; (2) pasted onto second front free endpaper in vol. 2: press cutting of obituary of Mr Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (the son of the subject of the book), with manuscript annotation: "D.T. [presumably Daily telegraph] 4/3/35". 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 mottled calf; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; brown and green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Life & letters of O. W. Holmes' and 'Morse / Vol. I[-II]'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso in both vols.: 'Bound by Riviere and Son'.
Makers and roles
Morse, John T., Jr, author