The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

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First Edition; BAL ; state 2. Bookplate removed; some foxing; very good. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Each volume with half-title and woodcut title page. Original red cloth, paper spine labels. An excellent uncut set, each volume with the bookplate of Mary Josephine Mayer. Blue cloth, decorated in blind. Inscription to title-page dated July, , bookplate of the Longos. The poet at the breakfast-table Oliver Wendell Holmes Ships with Tracking Number!

May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service! The book is superbly bound by Riviere name stamped on end papers in contemporary half morocco over red cloth boards. Double gilt borders on covers. Gilt lettering and decorations on spine Size: Octavo standard book size.

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Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Deckled edges rough cut.

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Top edge gilt - bright, rich condition. Embossed gilt decorated spine and gilt lettering. Five raised bands on the spine.. Date of publication in gilt lettering along spine bottom edge. Fine Leather Binding; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Murder In Print Published: The poet at the breakfast-table; his talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader Oliver Wendell Holmes The poet at the breakfast-table: The poet at the breakfast-table ; he talks with his fellow-boarders and the reader Oliver Wendell Holmes The poet at the breakfast table Oliver Wendell Holmes A handsome copy in green cloth with gilt decorations to the front board and spine.

This copy is in fine condition--only a couple of light flecks to the front board.

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Magnificent gold gilt decoration to the front board of a "Winged Urn" which would become Holmes decoration of choice for his future publications. This copy has a perfectly intact tissue guard over the title page and frontispiece. No spine give or interior markings--in magnificent shape for a book of years. Two copies available--from a recent auction with the auction tag tipped in. Classic First Editions Published: London - Walter Scott, Book.

Undated but I have the decade from the bookplate. We have 4 copies on sale from the same decade: A set of the Breakfast-Tables series by Oliver Wendell Holmes, an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets - the first Americans with popularity to rival British poets. TheBreakfast-Tables seriesattracted a diverse audience due to their conversational style, whichseemed to provokean intimate connection to the narrator, and resulted in a flood of letters from admirers.

The series' conversational tone is not only meant to mimic the philosophical debates and pleasantries that occur around the breakfast table, but it is also used in order to facilitate an openness of thought and expression. The Autocratwas favored by readers and critics alike and it secured the initial success of The Atlantic Monthly. The essays were collected as a book of the same name in and became the author's most enduring work, selling ten thousand copies in three days. Its sequel,The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, was released shortly after beginning in serialized installments in January This work's tone was mellower and more nostalgic than its predecessor; As people grow older, Holmes wrote, they come at length to live so much in memory that they often think with a kind of pleasure of losing their dearest possessions.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

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The Autocrat contains seven illustrations. The Professor contains a frontispiece showing the author's portrait. All three volumes contain the bookplate fo Jesse GrahamCollated against undated editions on Copac: In half calf with marbled boards. Externally smart with a little rubbing to the extremities of the boards and to the spines. Each volume has a personal bookplate to the front pastedown. The front hinges are slightly strained but still firm.

The Poet At the Breakfast-Table

All volumes lightly spotted to the first and last few pages as usual, but otherwise clean and bright. The essays were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in and before being collected in book form. The author had written two essays with the same name which were published in the earlier The New-England Magazine in November and February , which are alluded to in a mention of an "interruption" at the start of the very first essay. The essays take the form of a chiefly one-sided dialogue between the unnamed Author and the other residents of a New England boarding house who are known only by their profession, location at the table or other defining characteristics.

The topics discussed range from an essay on the unexpected benefits of old age to the finest place to site a dwelling and comments on the nature of conversation itself. The tone of the book is distinctly Yankee and takes a seriocomic approach to the subject matter.

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Each essay typically ends with a poem on the theme of the essay. There are also poems ostensibly written by the fictional disputants scattered throughout. In , Holmes moved out of his childhood home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and stayed in a boardinghouse in Boston while attending the city's medical college. In addition to Autocrat , there are two further volumes in the series drawing on later essays along similar themes. The first sequel, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table , was published in Its second sequel, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table , was published much later in Holmes wrote of it: Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered".

Holmes's essays were well received by critics and readers alike and their inclusion in The Atlantic Monthly in helped secure that magazine's early success. Holmes's friend and fellow writer James Russell Lowell believed the protagonist switch from "Autocrat" to "Professor" in the sequel was a good change, writing to Holmes, "I like the new Professor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. University of South Carolina,