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A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT-BOOK . THE LAST LEAF . A . Poem . By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES . 1 Poem Printed "by the in Author facsimil . With e of the twenty handwriting -three of full Dr -page . Holmes phototypes , and with in the different history of tints the , \ and and George thirty-two Whaeton full-page Edwards pen- . and Printed -ink drawings on plate from -paper desi , measur gns by ing F . Hopkinson eight and Smith three q Mr uarters . Edwards by twelve . Quarto and , a Two half inches Guineas . . Bound in an attractive style , with cover designed by his The poetry Last , ' His Leaf humour is one of is the so most grotesque characteristic and queer and that popular it reminds of Dr one . Holmes of the ' s frolics shorter of poems Fuck . ; and In it deep , as a pathos writer mingles said of with it so naturally that when the reader ' s eyes are brimming with tears he knows not whether they have their source in sorrow Alm or ost in every laughter line . of ' the poem suggests a picture , and the colonial period in which its scene is laid is especially adapted for the pic illustrations turesque . treatment . The old man who is likened to ' the last leaf upon the tree' is of course the central figure in all Before the expressions beginning in their the poem task , the and artists at the same consulted time with obtained Dr . Holmes his approval and gain of their ed from conception him a thorough s of his characters understan . ding Each of artist took such subjects as were particularly in his line , and reproduced them in whatever materials were best suited to a sympathetic The scene interpretation being laid in . the Boston of a hundred years ago , Mr . Smith has taken some of his subjects from the Common < and as accessory the Granary to his Burying figures . -ground « , while Mr . Edwards has introduced the architecture of the period in his backgrounds delicate Recognising features th , the at it publishers was of the have highes availed t importance themselves to of reproduce the proce th ss e drawings which was in used such with a way such as to excellent retain their results most in i reproducing Vedder ' s drawings for the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam . colour Mr . has Edwards in each ''drawings case been are carefully all in was adapted h or pen for - the and purpose -ink , and of M reproducing r . Smith's in actual charcoal tones . In of printing colour in the the illustrations originals . The the poem itself is printed from plates made in facsimile from the manuscript furnished for the purpose by Dr . Holmes , and ¦ I i curious printed each and-ink page reminiscences in drawings has engravers an , ornamental containing ' relating blue . Dr border to in . it Holmes quai , and . nt To this lettering accompany has appears prepared the in each appropriately lines for full the illustrated -page work illustration ornamented a mo , which st charming , Mr have pages . Ed been ward in account the reproduced s furnished latter of the part poem ornamen in of facsimile the , containing b tal ook pen . and - i ¦ America artists The did entire or their EDgland work work , has and con a cannot delightfully amore * fail It to ia Eighteenth at different tract and in Century deligh design t air and all , lovers and execution is of full imaginative of from graceful , any art other little and holiday touches of beautiful book ' , which ever books show published . that the to London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTON , Crown Buildings , 188 [ Fleet Stbbskt , E . G .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 7, 1885, page 1535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_07121885/page/275/
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