Product code: The School Boy by store O.W. Holmes Antique
The School Boy by O.W. Holmes 1879 Antique Book, Decorative Victorian Binding Fine 19th Century Book "The School-Boy," by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston: 1879. Black and white engraved frontispiece protected with tissue guard, as well as numerous full-page and in-text illustrations throughout. Includes beautiful illustrated end papers consisting of a floral design with various small bright silver illustrations. Original publisher's binding consisting of brown cloth-covered beveled boards with a stamped black, silver, and store gold gilt design along the front cover and spine. The title and author names are in bright silver along the front cover and spine. All three paper edges in a bright gold gilt finish. Size: Approx. 6-1/4" over by 8-5/8" tall.
The School Boy by O.W. Holmes 1879 Antique Book, Decorative Victorian Binding Fine 19th Century Book "The School-Boy," by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Published by Houghton, Osgood and Company, Boston: 1879. Black and white engraved frontispiece protected with tissue guard, as well as numerous full-page and in-text illustrations throughout. Includes beautiful illustrated end papers consisting of a floral design with various small bright silver illustrations. Original publisher's binding consisting of brown cloth-covered beveled boards with a stamped black, silver, and store gold gilt design along the front cover and spine. The title and author names are in bright silver along the front cover and spine. All three paper edges in a bright gold gilt finish. Size: Approx. 6-1/4" over by 8-5/8" tall.