Oliver Wendell Holmes - Dorothy Q Together with a Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother&Apos;S Story of Bunker Hill Battle

London, Gay and Bird, [1892]. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of Oliver Wendell Holmes' popular collection of poems, illustrated throughout by Howard Pyle. The first UK edition. From the U.S first issue sheets, with the 'flashed' left unchanged to pp. 50 line 8. Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and many headpieces, vignettes and full page monochrome illustrations, all by Howard Pyle. This poetry anthology features three poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American poet and jurist for the U.S. Supreme Court. The poems cover subjects such as his ancestor Dorothy Quincy, an account of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Boston Tea Party. In the publisher's original cloth. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with a small tidemark to the front and rear board, and minimal shelf wear. Internally generally firmly bound with strain between the frontis and title page only. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with only the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Howard Pye. Very Good Indeed .

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