This lovely cover is from “Holmes Poems”, published in 1883 by
Houghton Mifflin. I found it cheap at a used bookstore in Auburn a few months ago, which justified purchasing it instead of a $250 fully illustrated collection of Byron’s poems. Sigh.
Besides being a poet of some note, Mr. Holmes was also a physician, a professor, coined the term “anaesthesia”, attempted to admit the first African-American and women students to Harvard Medical School while he was dean, and was the bearer of some very fine muttonchops.
