Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

New York, NY: H. M. Caldwell Company. Very Good. 0. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This is a small format book (appoximately 5" by 3"). The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have paper covered boards that have been illustrated to look like wooden boards. There is a rectangular illustrated pastedown that's in very good condition - with some rubbing and weawr to the corners and edges. The book covers have some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page, and his name inked on the front endpaper. "Holmes's fame continued through his later years. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table was published in 1872. Written fifteen years after The Autocrat, this work's tone was mellower and more nostalgic than its predecessor; "As people grow older," Holmes wrote, "they come at length to live so much in memory that they often think with a kind of pleasure of losing their dearest possessions. Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered". In 1876, at the age of seventy, Holmes published a biography of John Lothrop Motley, which was an extension of an earlier sketch he had written for the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings. The following year he published a collection of his medical essays and Pages from an Old Volume of Life, a collection of various essays he had previously written for The Atlantic Monthly. He was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1880. He retired from Harvard Medical School in 1882 after thirty-five years as a professor. After he gave his final lecture on November 28, the university made him professor emeritus. " (from Wikipedia) .