HOLMES, Oliver Wendell. The autocrat of the breakfast table." In: The Atlantic Monthly, Volumes I-II, pp. 48-57; 312-320; 457-469; 614-625; 734-744; 871-883. Philips, Sampson and Company, Boston, 1857.

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Description: Half-morocco and pebbled boards, spine decorated in blind, slightly rubbed at corners and edges of spine. Both volumes inscribed on front paste-down by William Prince, Vol. 2 with his large engraved bookplate. First edition of the first complete year of one of the most important American literary periodicals. It is here that Holmes' great work was first printed. Ives, 96.

Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.