Q: Hello – I found this book today at the Salvation Army. Can you tell me what year it was published? It’s titled: The Aristocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Thanks a Million.

A: Your book is part of the Vademecum Series and was published in 1897. See http://henryaltemus.com/series/series179.htm. It originally came in a labeled box.

This is a publisher’s series of reprints. Every year the same group of titles were published with different cover designs. Because it is a reprint and not a very collectible title, it only has nominal value.