[Rarebooks] FS: Oliver Wendell Holmes's copy of George Herbert, Inscribed

[Charles Agvent]

[HOLMES, Oliver Wendell] HERBERT, George. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF
THE  REV. GEORGE HERBERT: WITH THE SYNAGOGUE, IN IMITATION OF HERBERT.
Boston:  James  Monroe & Co. 1851. Original green cloth with  embossed
pattern  on covers. Includes the Life of Rev. George Herbert  abridged
from  Izaak  Walton. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "Sarah C. Paine/from  O.  W.
Holmes/Christmas  1852"  on the front pastedown. Spine is sunned  with
some  chipping  to  the  head.   Contents  are  clean,  with  Holmes's
inscription  very  clear  and dark on the bright yellow paper  of  the
pastedown. Near Fine                                           $450.00

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