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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Artist’s Edition Limited to 750 copies Complete 15 Volumes
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The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Artist’s Edition — Limited to 750 copies
This set: No. 407
Complete in 15 volumes
13 volumes plus 2 volumes of Life and Letters
A distinguished limited Artist’s Edition of the collected works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.—physician, poet, essayist, and central figure of nineteenth-century American letters. Issued in a strictly limited edition of 750 numbered sets, this series was conceived as a deluxe library presentation, combining literary importance with refined bookmaking.
The volumes are uniformly bound in full leather, elegantly gilt-tooled to the spines with decorative panels and lettering, and illustrated with steel portraits and photogravures. The bindings exhibit strong shelf presence and careful craftsmanship, intended for permanent placement in a gentleman’s library or cultivated domestic interior.
Holmes’s writings—including The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays, poetry, and medical reflections—were foundational to American intellectual culture, blending wit, humanism, and scientific insight. This Artist’s Edition reflects the enduring esteem in which his work was held at the turn of the twentieth century.
An impressive and cohesive leather-bound set, offering both historical significance and visual elegance, ideal for a refined private library, gallery installation, or interior design setting emphasizing classic American scholarship.
- Dimensions:Height: 8.75 in (22.23 cm)Width: 6 in (15.24 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
- Style:Other (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1892
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Minor scuffing to some areas. See pictures.
- Seller Location:Woodbury, CT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10234248456322
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