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 3251230.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1 : ill., facsim., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil marks (erased) on front free endpaper verso, including: "2 vols / 5/5/-", "4/4/x" and "496 [?]". Bookseller's pencil note (erased) on rear free endpaper, describing this copy and the number of extra illustrations. Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper: "1027H" and "56H". Pencil date on rear free endpaper: "7/39". Pencil note below title on title page: "1809-1894 / aged 85". Pencil list of extra illustrations following list of contents. Pencil dots against entries in list of illustrations. Occasional pencil text underlining and annotations. Ephemera: loosely inserted: portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes with pencil note on verso: "From Rookman / Sept 1892". 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 spine; brown and green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Life & letters of O. W. Holmes' and 'Morse / Vol. I'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink-stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere and Son'.
Makers and roles
Morse, John T., Jr, author