Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Large Paper

Heading: (Pyle, Howard, illustrator)
Author: Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Title: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
Place Published: Cambridge
Publisher:Riverside Press
Date Published: 1894
Description:

2 volumes. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Original full vellum stamped in gilt, top edges gilt; custom 2 part cloth and leather slipcases with spines lettered in gilt. No. 215 of 250 copies of this Large Paper Edition.

Howard Pyle was one of America's foremost illustrators known for the timeless quality of his work. Nice example of this Large Paper Edition, with handsome custom slipcases.
Condition Report: Light wear and sunning to slipcases; light soiling to vellum with some rubbing to extremities and darkening to spines; early ownership signatures; very good or better.