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RICHARD CONGREVE COPY ARNOLD, MATTHEW. Cromwell: A Prize Poem, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford; June 28, 1843. 15 pages. 12mo, printed tan wrappers, backstrip with later stitch repair, scattered soiling, soft creasing; laid into plain cloth folder, worn. Oxford: J. Vincent, 1843
first edition, presentation copy, with inscription in Arnold's hand "Richard Congreve / Wadham Coll[ege] Oxford" on front wrapper, but without his signature. Arnold's second separate publication, preceded by the rare 1840 Rugby Prize poem Alaric at Rome.
