The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, and The Poet at the Breakfast-Table.

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.

$150.00

Item Number: 110258

London: J. M. Dent & Co, 1903 - 1904.

Finely bound fully illustrated set of the series that gained Oliver Wendell Holmes international fame. Octavo, three volumes bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine within raised bands, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. With full page illustrations and vignettes by H.M. Brock throughout including tissue-guarded frontispieces. Armorial bookplates. In very good condition.

A member of the Fireside poets, American physician, poet, and polymath Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858), which first appeared in Atlantic Monthly and later became a three volume series.