MATTHEW ARNOLD. — Irish Essays and Others.

Smith Elder, London [i.e. Macmillan, New York], 1st Edition, The American issue of the first edition; the English sheets retaining the imprint of the original UK publisher at the base of the title page, but with the Macmillan imprint to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. xiv, 308pp. Brown smooth-weave cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine with a double blind rule to the upper and lower boards. Some extremities of the covers slightly chafed. Really quite a crisp and bright copy, retaining the original endpapers. No dust wrapper, as issued. A ten-page preface by the author precedes seven lengthy essays, plus reprints of the author's prefaces to the first (1853) and second (1854) editions of his collection 'Poems., Very Good