Author: (Dalziel). Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Title: The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Description: London: G. Routledge & Co. 1852. 1852. London: G. Routledge & Co. 1852. 1852. Fair. - 12mo [5-1/8 inches high by 3-1/4 inches wide], three quarters brown calf & marbled boards. There are some tiny wormholes in the binding. The boards are rubbed with part of the surface of the front board rubbed away & with a small piece out of the top edge of the rear board. The leather is rubbed with the spine darkened & with the bottom corner of the rear cover chipped. xvi & 296 pages. 3 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, & an extra pictorial title page by Dalziel. There are wormholes in the pastedowns & endpapers with occasional minor worming to the text pages. There is staining to the front pastedown & very light dampstaining to the versos of the frontispiece & pictorial title. Good only.

First English edition.

Ex -"Kandy Library" with the library's name stamped in gilt on the tail of the spine & its blind stamp on the title page.

This edition is a reprint, except for the addition of two poems, "To An English Friend" and "The Ploughman". Fair .

Keywords: iILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATOR; DALZIEL; PLATES; PICTORIAL TITLE; LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; AMERICAN AUTHOR; OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; FIRST ENGLISH EDITION; 1ST ENGLISH EDITION.

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