The "Breakfast-Table" Series, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Routledge, c. 1890

The "Breakfast-Table" series by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. brings together three of his most popular and enduring works - The Autocrat, The Professor, and The Poet at the Breakfast-Table. First published between 1858 and 1872, these essays combine wit, observation and gentle satire, presented as conversational pieces set around a Boston boarding house table. Blending humour with reflections on society, literature and human nature, Holmes writes with charm and accessibility, and the series remains a cornerstone of nineteenth-century American prose, admired for its warmth, intelligence and enduring readability.

The "Breakfast-Table" Series; The Autocrat at the Breakfast-Table; The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; and; The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Published by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London, Manchester and New York. Printed in Great Britain. c. 1890.

A very good hardback with dark blue leather spine and corners. With gilt ruled decoration to covers and tooled gilt decoration to spine, with raised bands and brown morocco title label. The raised bands, joints and extremities are rubbed and the spine a little sunned. With attractive blue marbled paper over boards, with the design mirrored to endpapers and all text block edges. Signs of bookplate removal to first pastedown. Soundly bound. 

The text is very good - bright and clean throughout. The blank endpapers are quite spotted, but the main text is spot-free. With frontispiece plate of the author. With previous owner's inscription to first blank endpaper dated to Xmas 1899.

Text in English.

frontispiece + iv + 5-183pp; (i); 198pp; (i); 9-223pp. The pagination of the final section follows the original setting and is complete as issued.