ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88). Empedocles on Etna, London, [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896, 8vo, printed in red and black, decorations by Charles Ricketts, original boards. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. (10)

ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-88).  Empedocles on Etna. A Dramatic Poem. [Colophon:] London: [The Vale Press at] The Ballantyne Press, 1896 [?but 1897]. 8vo in 4s (190 x 125mm). The first page of text with an elaborate red foliate border with initial, final text leaf and colophon printed in red and black, the decorations by Charles Ricketts. Original blue paper boards, printed label on the upper cover and spine, uncut (without the exceptionally scare dust-jacket). Provenance: Claud Alexander [18]98 (pencil signature on the front free endpaper). Only 210 copies were printed, although no limitation is stated in the book. Watry B8. With 8 other illustrated works in 9 vols. including Charles Kingsley's Westward Ho! (London, 1896, 2 vols., 8vo, plates by Charles E. Brock, fine original blue pictorial cloth gilt), Evelyn Sharp's Wymps and Other Fairy Tales (London, 1897, 4to, 8 coloured plates by Mabel Dearmer, original coloured pictorial cloth), E. V. Lucas's Runaways and Castaways (London, [1908], 8vo, illustrations by F. D. Bedford, fine original red pictorial cloth gilt), Stories from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman (London, [n.d.], 4to, mounted coloured plates by Edmund Dulac, original dark green cloth, dust-jacket), A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young (London, 1925, 8vo, illustrations by E. H. Shepard, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, dust-jacket, eleventh edition), Sidney Dark's Paris (London, 1926, 4to, plates by Henry Rushbury, some mainly marginal spotting, original blue buckram, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the title page), and E. Hilton Young's A Bird in the Bush (London, 1936, 4to, coloured plates and illustrations by Peter Scott, original turquoise buckram, NUMBER 154 OF 550 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST). (10)