DOROTHY Q. TOGETHER WITH A BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY & GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893. Howard Pyle. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates, drawings, head and tail-pieces by Howard Pyle. An interesting copy inscribed on the front blank: "Dear Dr. Holmes/I am going to give/this charming little edition/To my Wife/on her birthday/18th Nov. 1892/Don't you want to add, for/her, a value beyond/printing ink by a stroke of/your pen?/W.W. Vaughan." Holmes has obliged by writing on the recto of the frontispiece 8 lines from the book beginning with the line "Soft is the breath of a maiden's Yes" and ending with "You may hear to-day in a hundred men." Holmes has added the page numbers where the lines appear and SIGNED and dated the quote "Boston, November 18th, 1892." Laid in is a SIGNED card by Holmes with the same date INSCRIBED "With my best wishes for/Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan." Front endpaper and blank partly detached at the top; small tear to the head of the spine. Near Fine. Item #018668
Price: $1,500.00