Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Title: The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes (note: there are two title pages here. The other: Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes) Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole
Publication Information: T.Y. Crowell Company New York; Copyright 1899 by T.Y. Crowell & Company
Call #: PS1956 . E3 1899
Book Size: 18.5 cm (H); 13 cm (L); 3.2 cm (spine)
Cover: front and back cover - cloth with pink and green floral design, color printed with gold highlights; gold embossed vertical line on front and back, about one third from the left of the front cover, one third from the right of the back over. On the left side of the front cover is a white and gold floral design, which carries over to the spine and the right third of the back cover. The spine has "Holmes's Poems embossed gilt, and toward s the bottom of the spine "T.Y. Crowell 7 Co. New York embossed gilt.
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: all gilt
Illustrations: portrait of Holmes opposite title page (looks like a photograph)
Comments:
- "To Charles Wentworth Upham the following material essay is affectionately inscribed" (all caps, different sizes; "To" in Gothic font)
- "The Author to the Publishers" dated Boston, January 13, 1849"
- has a table of contents , which includes "Poems added since the First Edition"
- some poem titles: "Our Yankee Girls," "Inconnue," "Illustration of a Picture," "The Spectre Pig,' Lexington," etc.
- no advertisements
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- Late 19th-Century American Text Production
- Text Design
- American Poetry
