Letters ecrits a sur Provincial

Paris: Librarie de Firmin Didot, 1872. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Light wear at extremities, but in very good condition. 8vo. Text in French. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Contemporary brown half morocco, top edges gilt; in a greyish-tan cloth slipcase. Matthew Arnold's copy, with 51 penciled annotations – totaling 590 words – by him on 31 pages, plus marginal markings and underlinings on these and numerous other pages. Some of the annotations are lengthy: 83 words in one case, 48 in another; the annotations average 19 words. Bookplate of Kenneth A. Lohf. (BA).