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Matthew Arnold / Gilbert James (ill) - Poems (in special leather binding with 12 photogravures) - 1905
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Matthew Arnold / Gilbert James (ill) - Poems (in special leather binding with 12 photogravures) - 1905

"Poems" by Matthew Arnold and ill. by Gilbert James - George Routledge, London - 1905 first thus UK edition - with 12 photogravures by James - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, all plates present, in special soft blue leather sleeve in which the book is held Includes: The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661, etc.). It has often been called one of the best and most popular of Arnold's poems,[1] and is also familiar to music-lovers through Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral work An Oxford Elegy, which sets lines from this poem and from its companion-piece, "Thyrsis

No. 84179675

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Matthew Arnold / Gilbert James (ill) - Poems (in special leather binding with 12 photogravures) - 1905

Matthew Arnold / Gilbert James (ill) - Poems (in special leather binding with 12 photogravures) - 1905

"Poems" by Matthew Arnold and ill. by Gilbert James - George Routledge, London - 1905 first thus UK edition - with 12 photogravures by James - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, all plates present, in special soft blue leather sleeve in which the book is held

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The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661, etc.). It has often been called one of the best and most popular of Arnold's poems,[1] and is also familiar to music-lovers through Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral work An Oxford Elegy, which sets lines from this poem and from its companion-piece, "Thyrsis

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