The Professor at the Breakfast-Table: With the Story of Iris

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Octavo, 410pp., Gilt lettered and decorated cover and spine. Top edge is gilt. Rebound in full leather with gilt inner dentelles Mild fading on spine. New endpapers. Original spine and front board cloth bound in at rear of book. First trade edition. Currier notes that the first impression of the large paper issue consisted of "530 copies, of which 300 were cut down to make the regular trade edition before binding. This work first appeared serially in The Atlantic Monthly. It contained the first printing of several poems, including De Sauty, The Opening of the Piano, The Two streams, and Under the Violets. BAL 8791. Holmes [1809-94], was an American author and physician. He began his medical career as a general practitioner but shifted into the academic field, becoming professor of anatomy and physiology at Dartmouthand later was dean of the Harvard medical school. A stimulating and popular speaker, he published two important medical lectures, one in opposition to the practice of homeopathy and the other on the nature of fevers. His first important poem,"Old Ironsides" (1830), was a protest against the scrapping of the fighting ship Constitution. In 1857 he began to contribute to the Atlantic Monthly which he named the famous series of "Breakfast-table" sketches, which were collected in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) and several subsequent volumes. These urbane pieces present imaginary conversations at a Boston boardinghouse, reflecting Holmes¿s opinions, charm, and wit. Among his other notable works are three novels presenting a scientific approach to psychological traits, most notably Elsie Venner and biographies of his friends John Lothrop Motley and Ralph Waldo Emerson. N° de ref. del artículo 023123

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