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.
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.
$75.00
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