The One-Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems

Illustrator Howard Pyle American
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company American
1905
Not on view
Frontispiece, title page, publisher's note, preface, list of illustrations, half title, pp. 12 - 80 with 60 illustrations in color by Pyle not including a frontispiece and tailpiece. This work was first published in 1892; this is a later issue.

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  • Title: The One-Hoss Shay With its Companion Poems
  • Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (American, 1841–1935)
  • Illustrator: Howard Pyle (American, Wilmington, Delaware 1853–1911 Florence)
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts) & New York, NY
  • Date: 1905
  • Medium: Illustrations: photogravure
  • Dimensions: 7 7/8 x 5 5/16 in. (20 x 13.5 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Gift of Olivia H. Paine, 1957
  • Object Number: 57.594.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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