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 3251230.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : ill., facsim., ports. ; 8vo. Extra-illustrated. Pencil list of extra illustrations following list of contents. Pencil dots against entries in list of illustrations. Occasional pencil text underlining. Ephemera: pasted onto second front free endpaper: 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 spine; brown and green morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Life & letters of O. W. Holmes' and 'Morse / Vol. II'; 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