The One Hoss Shay With Its Companion Poems / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Book
79 pages. Tissue guarded frontis. Color illustrations throughout, with 13 plates and numerous text illustrations, all in color including head and tail pieces. Printed on the recto only. First edition in color (the black and white ink illustrations from the original edition were so popular that Pyle was asked to reproduce them here in color).
Companion poems of "The Deacon's Masterpiece, a Logical Story"; "How the Old Horse Won the Bet," and "The Broomstick Train, or The Return of the Witches."
2015.7.242
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
8-1/4 in
5-1/4 in
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Howard Pyle
First
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1905
Publisher's Binding- 20th Century Blind Stamping
Bound in dark brown vertical rib cloth with a decorative motif repeat pattern of a horse and buggy which is blind stamped on both covers and spine. Bright gilt titles to spine and cover. Top edge gilt.
Bibliography of American Literature
BAL 9258