[Rarebooks] FS: O. W. Holmes MANUSCRIPT POETRY in Howard Pyle Illustrated Book

[Charles Agvent]

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. DOROTHY Q. TOGETHER WITH A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON 
TEA PARTY & GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE. Boston & New 
York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893. Revised Edition. Decorated 
cloth. Illustrated with plates, drawings, head and tail-pieces by Howard 
Pyle. An interesting copy inscribed on the front blank: "Dear Dr. 
Holmes/I am going to give/this charming little edition/To my Wife/on her 
birthday/18th Nov. 1892/Don't you want to add, for/her, a value 
beyond/printing ink by a stroke of/your pen?/W.W. Vaughan." Holmes has 
obliged by writing on the recto of the frontispiece 8 lines from the 
book beginning with the line "Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes" and 
ending with "You may hear to-day in a hundred men." Holmes has added the 
page numbers where the lines appear and SIGNED and dated the quote 
"Boston, November 18th, 1892." Laid in is a SIGNED card by Holmes with 
the same date INSCRIBED "With my best wishes for/Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan." 
Front endpaper and blank partly detached at the top; small tear to the 
head of the spine. Near Fine. (#018668) $1,500

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