The Poetical Works Of Matthew Arnold -

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London: Macmillan Co. 1899 Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Later Edition. Hardcover. inscription bookplate a. biggs spine bumped small tear top.

London: Macmillan, 1905. Some wear with fading to spine gilt, but quite sound, the contents fine. Presentation plate on front pastedown. xii, 510p. Portrait frontispiece. A prize binding bound for H. Sotheran in full calf with marbled endpaper, a.e.g., the spine densely gilt and with the crest of the Westminster School on the upper cover in gilt, fancy dentelles.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1901. 190 x 121 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4"). xii, [2], 510 pp. VERY PRETTY OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO, GILT, BY BUMPUS (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with gilt rule border, upper cover semé with tiny dots, floral spray cornerpieces connected by two curving rules that form a central mandola containing gilt lettering, raised bands, spine in gilt-ruled compartments with three flowers on curving stems, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins with floral cornerpieces, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the poet, with original tissue guard. Engraved calling card of Rev. R. Percy Thompson with presentation inscription laid in at front. Front pastedown and free endpaper with faint offsetting suggesting formerly laid-in bookplate or note. ◆Spine evenly sunned to hazel brown, free endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins (as often), but A FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright internally, in a virtually unworn binding. This is a handsomely bound collection of the works by… Read More