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    By Matthew Arnold
    London   Macmillan and Co.
    7" by 4.5" vii, [3], 274; vii, [1], 256; [8], 209pp.
    An elegantly bound collection of poetry by Matthew Arnold, complete in three volumes, in a Bickers prize binding.
    By Matthew Arnold

    1895 Poems

    London   Macmillan and Co.
    7" by 4.5" vii, [3], 274; vii, [1], 256; [8], 209pp.
    An elegantly bound collection of poetry by Matthew Arnold, complete in three volumes, in a Bickers prize binding.
    £250.00
    : 3kgs / : 913Q34
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    Description

    Fine Binding, Leather Binding

    Bound by Bickers in a full morocco prize binding, with the motif for Repton School to the front cover.

    A striking binding with gilt dentelles and gilt to the fore edge. 

    Complete in three volumes.

    A collection of poetry from English poet and critic, Matthew Arnold, who was appointed as the Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, being the first lecturer to deliver his lessons in English rather than Latin.

    This collection is comprised of :

    Volume I - 'Early Poems, Narrative Poems and Sonnets'.

    Volume II - 'Lyric and Elegiac Poems'.

    Volume III - 'Dramatic and Later Poems'.

    With a prize bookplate awarding the set to E. S. Workman, dated 1897.

    Condition

    Bound by Bickers in full morocco with gilt motif. Externally, lovely, with light rubbing to joints and extremities and a little darkening to the spine. The odd mark. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages.

    Very Good Indeed

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