The Poems of Matthew Arnold

£75 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

This edition contains some of Arnold's greatest poems, such as 'The Scholar Gipsy', 'Dover Beach', and 'Thyrsis.' This volume also features an introduction by famed 20th century literary critic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. 8vo (19 x 13 cm); remnants of removed bookplate to front pastedown, free endpaper excised, else internally clean, black and white frontispiece portrait of the poet with tissue guard; half brown calf over brown cloth boards, top edge gilt, corners bumped and rubbed, spine lettered in gilt in six compartments with raised bands, spine slightly faded and marked; 460 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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