The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

viii, 373 pp. Brown cloth spine with gilt titles, decorated paper over boards, decorated endpapers. Part of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company's (Westvaco's) Christmas publication tradition - the company printed a classic work of literature every year, and made them available exclusively to their employees. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He is recognized as an important medical reformer."