Poems (Autograph letter from Arnold affixed to front free endpage); The second volume of Lyric, Dramatic, and Elegiac Poems

New York: Macmillan, 1883. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover in original half-leather boards with Florentined paper including similar pattern on all text-block edges. Front board is completely detached. Leather spine covering with title in gilt is intact but unglued. Interior pages are fresh and bright. 8vo. 330 pp.

Inked letter from Arnold, SIGNED and dated Sept. 15th, no year stated, from Laleham, Surrey, reads, "Dear Sir, I think that Macmillan have a printed list of my publications, with dates. My first published work was 'The Strayed Reveller,' brought out by [Feldman] in 1847 without the author's name. Faithfully yours, Matthew Arnold."

From the library of James Fraser Gluck, with his bookplate affixed to inside front board. Gluck, lone-time curator of the Buffalo (NY) Library and later its director, made a collection of manuscripts and autograph letters of famous men, historical documents of value and rare books (including Mark Twain's original handwritten manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). Just before the close of his term of office in the late 1890s he presented his collection to the library, perhaps the most valuable of the kind in the country.