[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold E-List 23 Little's art and stationery store

Little's art and stationery store in Los Angeles

typographic design

Updike at the Merrymount Press

with a worked floral ornament to the front cover

Original glassine wrapper included (with some light browning and tears)

[Fine Binding | Bumpus] Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold E-List 23 Little's art and stationery storeArnold, Matthew. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. A presentation card from Rev. R. Percy Thompson loosely inserted. Silk page marker. Bound in olive green morocco for Bumpus (almost certainly by Riviere & Son) with a beautifully designed front cover featuring gouged vines converging at the top and bottom of the cover, with the title in the middle, terminating in an array of leaves and art nouveau gilt stamped flowers.