The Complete Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cambridge MA: Houghton Mifflin, Riverside Press, 1895. Full Marroon Morocco. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Published by: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge. 1895. Fore-edge painting. Bound in full brown Morocco. Signed fore-edge by La Vigne dated 1980. A Cambridge edition from Oliver Wendell Holmes. Provenance from the Estate of Russell Johanson, Ravenna Rare Books, Seattle. The fore-edge is painted in the style of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's, 'Tempest at Sea'. From the Russ Johanson Collection. Pictured and described in Webber's 'Book of Fore-Edge Paintings' on p186. Although the photograph and description suggest the painting is on Goodrich Natural History, it is in fact on Holmes Works. Very good. Item #21
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