HOLMES, Oliver Wendell.
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
"Tis like stirring living embers when, at eighty, one remembers": Oliver Wendell Holmes' Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle; illustrated by H.W. McVickar
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1883.
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Item Number: RRB-148665
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First McVickar illustrated edition of this narrative poem of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, floral endpapers, frontispiece, title page vignette, with color illustrations throughout by H.W. McVickar. McVickar was an American illustrator and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his contributions to popular magazines and illustrated books of the Gilded Age. His work often captured the elegance and social manners of upper-class American life, blending satire with refined visual style, and reflecting the cultural sensibilities of the period’s urban elite. In very good condition.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was a prominent 19th-century American physician, poet, and essayist whose work bridged the worlds of science and literature. A member of the Boston literary elite and part of the Fireside Poets, Holmes was known for his wit, humanism, and advocacy for medical reform. Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle is a narrative poem that blends historical reflection with personal memory, offering a vivid account of the 1775 battle through the lens of a grandmother recounting her experiences. First published in the 1870s, the poem exemplifies Holmes’s characteristic fusion of patriotism, sentimentality, and New England regionalism. By situating the revolutionary conflict within a domestic and generational framework, Holmes emphasizes the role of women as both witnesses to and preservers of national history.
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
$75.00
In Stock
