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Lot 35
[BINDINGS]. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. Works. Bost. & NY, 1892. WITH ALS.
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[BINDINGS]. HOLMES, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894). Works. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1892.

15 volumes, 8vo. Title-pages and half-titles printed in red and black, each volume with engraved or photogravure frontispiece, hand-colored photogravure frontispiece, and numerous photogravure plates, all in india paper mounted. Full blue morocco gilt in a floral motif, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettering in two, gilt-tooled in others, top edges gilt, uncut and largely unopened, grey morocco doublures gilt, stamp-signed by The Riverside Press.

LIMITED EDITION, number 508 of 750 copies of the "Artists' Edition." The final two volumes comprise Morse's Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

[Bound into vol. I:] Autograph letter signed ("OWHolmes"), 2 pp. Beverly Farms, 20 September 1877, to H.O. Houghton & Co., thanking them for the gift on an engraved portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier. BAL 9214; Tilton 240.

Property from the Charlecote Antique Store, Kansas City, Missouri
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