Poems by Matthew Arnold. Lyric and Elegiac Poems.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Macmillan and Co. 1885. Sm. 8vo. Orig. full blue crushed oasis (slightly rubbed front hinge starting). Spine gilt-titled and with raised bands. Inside gilt borders and marbled endpapers. A.e.g. (x 256pp.). An armorial bookplate on front endpaper. Prelims lightly foxed otherwise fine. Adorned under the gilt of the fore-edge is a fine bright watercolour painting depicting a shipwreck with surviving sailors in a life-boat and others cast adrift on rocks.