ARNOLD, MATTHEW | Two First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

ARNOLD, MATTHEW

Two First Editions

Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. London: B. Fellows, 1852. 8vo (4 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.; 105 x 172 mm). Half-title, minor marginal toning. Original full green cloth, covers decoratively ruled and stamped in blind, spine gilt lettered, yellow coated endpapers; minor rubbing to extremities, spine just sunned. In custom quarter green linen over marbled board clamshell case. First edition. Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford (armorial bookplate to front pastedown) - Judith Adams and Simon Nowell-Smith (booklabels to front pastedown) — New Poems. London: Macmillan, 1867. 8vo (4 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.; 120 x 175 mm). Half-title, notes at end. Original full green cloth covered boards bound by Burn, upper cover with double gilt rules, lower cover ruled in blind, spine gilt lettered, broad coated endpapers, ; corners bumped, minor rubbing to extremists, one or two bubbles to cloth, one or two nicks to head of spine. In custom quarter green linen over marbled board clamshell case. First edition. Agnes Many Davies (contemporary gift inscription to half-title) - J.O. Edwards (booklabel to front pastedown) 

Group lots not subject to return. 

Two first editions, collecting together a number of Arnold’s most memorable poems, including “Dover Beach”