Matthew Arnold: A Life

by Park Honan

$25 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 496pp. Bit of foxing to upper edge of text block, else a tight, straight Near Fine copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. First printing. Honan noteworthy for his discovery, revealed first in the present work, of the identity of Arnold's anonymous early muse Marguerite.

• Printing: first

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