HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

The professor at the breakfast table; with the story of Iris.

London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1860. 8vo. 286 pp. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. With 2 pages publisher’s advertisements dated November, 1860, and a 16-page publisher’s catalogue dated June, 1863, bound into the back (different leaf size). Original blue pebbled cloth, decorated in blind. Morocco bookplate of Alfred Sutro, small bookbinders label to rear paste-down. Item #12273

First English edition. Includes the poems The boys, A mother’s secret, The crooked footpath, and Iris, her book, amongst many others. C&T, p. 90.

Price: $400.00