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Dorothy Q: together with A ballad of the Boston tea party & Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle / by Oliver Wendell Holmes ; with illustrations by Howard Pyle.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773--Poetry.
- Boston Tea Party, Boston, Mass., 1773.
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775--Poetry.
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775.
- Medicine in literature.
- Medicine in Literature.
- Poetry as Topic--19th Century.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine in Literature.
- Poetry as Topic--19th Century.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Endpapers (Binding)
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Messenger(?), Mr. and Mrs. (inscription Christmas '92) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 131, [1] pages : frontispiece, plates ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- Cambridge, Mass. : The Riverside Press
- Other Title:
- Ballad of the Boston tea party
- Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle
- Place of Publication:
- Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, MDCCCXCIII [1893].
- Summary:
- A series of three poems by Holmes set in Revolutionary America. Dorothy Q of the title poem was Holmes' great-grandmother, Dorothy Quincy. -- vendor's description.
- Contents:
- Dorothy Q. : a family portrait
- A ballad of the Boston Tea-Party
- Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill Battle, as she saw it from the belfry.
- Notes:
- Most of the plates printed on both sides.
- Title page in red and black with publisher's device.
- Grey cloth binding design reminiscent of medieval book clasps, with lettering and decorations stamped in silver on front cover and and spine, and decorations extending to back cover; green endpapers; all edges trimmed; top edge silver. Unsigned, attributed to Sarah Wyman Whitman.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has inscription on paper pasted in: Mr. and Mrs. Messenger (?) from Mr. and Mrs. (illegible) Brattleboro. Christmas '92.
- Cited in:
- BAL 9042.
- Allen & Gullans. Decorated Cloth in America, p. 71
- OCLC:
- 846170
- Publisher Number:
- PML 150650 JPW 2149
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