The Poet at the Breakfast Table, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 3 Volume Leather Bound Set in Slipcase

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Published by Collins Clear-type Press, London and Glasgow

About this Item

Not dated. Size 7.25" x 4.5". 3 matching volumes contained in leather backed slipcase. Condition very good, the edges of the slipcase are rubbed, slight rubbing to the book corners and the spine edges, the dark green has faded from the spines, but evenly leaving tan leather spines, the gilt titles and decorations are still bright. The internal condition of each book is fine, no marks or inscriptions, a nice set. Very attractive soft leather bindings dark green covers and tan spines with gilt titles in elaborate frames on the front covers and gilt titles and floral decorations on the spines. All page edges bright gilt and with green book mark ribbons still attached. Each volume has a printed title page and an additional coloured illustrative title page and frontispiece. With further full page colour illustrations throughout. A. Pearse illustrated The Poet at the Breakfast Table and Arthur A. Dixon illustrated The Professor at the Breakfast Table and The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table.

Seller Inventory # 011659

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Poet at the Breakfast Table, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, The Autocrat at the Breakfast Table. 3 Volume Leather Bound Set in Slipcase
• Publisher: Collins Clear-type Press, London and Glasgow
• Language: English
• Binding: Decorative Leather Soft Cover
• Illustrator: A. Pearse, Arthur A. Dixon
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::Short Stories
  • Literary Collections
  • Fiction