ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852, light wear at ends of spine and lower fore-corcners, half morocco slipcase, FIRST EDITION, traditionally held to be withdrawn shortly after publication at which time only fifty copies had been sold. Inscribed on half-title to the scholar and editor Frederick James Furnivall "from his friend Wm. Johnson, Dec. 1852." The H. Buxton Forman-Willis Vickery copy, bookplates; Poems...A New Edition, 1853, slight wear at upper front joint, spine faded, FIRST EDITION, containing poems from his previous two volumes with new material, such as "The Scholar Gypsy," "Sohrab and Rustum," and a long critical preface, errata slip, glazed cream endpapers with printed ads at the front for "Books of Voyages and Travels, etc." and at the end for "Historical Works," Westleys & Co. binder's ticket inside rear cover, SIEGFRIED SASSOON'S COPY with his sale book label, 6 pencilled annotations on 6 pages (some 22 words in his hand, mainly regarding previous appearances of some poems), and with a note laid in from his wife Hester presenting him with this copy (1 p., 12mo, on Heytesbury House stationery). Hayward 257; Poems...New and Complete Edition, 1877, 2 vols., the first really complete edition; all London, together 4 vols., 8vo, original cloth. (4)

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ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852, light wear at ends of spine and lower fore-corcners, half morocco slipcase, FIRST EDITION, traditionally held to be withdrawn shortly after publication at which time only fifty copies had been sold. Inscribed on half-title to the scholar and editor Frederick James Furnivall "from his friend Wm. Johnson, Dec. 1852." The H. Buxton Forman-Willis Vickery copy, bookplates; Poems...A New Edition, 1853, slight wear at upper front joint, spine faded, FIRST EDITION, containing poems from his previous two volumes with new material, such as "The Scholar Gypsy," "Sohrab and Rustum," and a long critical preface, errata slip, glazed cream endpapers with printed ads at the front for "Books of Voyages and Travels, etc." and at the end for "Historical Works," Westleys & Co. binder's ticket inside rear cover, SIEGFRIED SASSOON'S COPY with his sale book label, 6 pencilled annotations on 6 pages (some 22 words in his hand, mainly regarding previous appearances of some poems), and with a note laid in from his wife Hester presenting him with this copy (1 p., 12mo, on Heytesbury House stationery). Hayward 257; Poems...New and Complete Edition, 1877, 2 vols., the first really complete edition; all London, together 4 vols., 8vo, original cloth. (4)