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1881 PTLA: List of Publications dated August 1881; 229 Broadway, opposite the Post Office.

"The Arundel Poets" include: "The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith": Cloth, plain edges, $1.25. Cloth, gilt edges, $1.50 Half calf, $4.00 Tree calf or morocco, $5.00

"Owen Meredith's Lucile": Cloth, plain edges, $1.25. Cloth, gilt edges, $1.50 Half calf, $4.00 Tree calf or morocco, $5.00

"New Aldine Gift Poets. Finely Illustrated" includes: "Owen Meredith's Lucile" Cloth, full gilt side and edges, $5.00 Morocco antique, $9.00

1881 PW 24 Sept advertisement lists both Lucile and Meredith among The Arundel Poets "New Plates. Large Type. Perfect Printing. Super- calendared paper. $1.25, cloth, plain edges; $1.50, cloth, gilt edges. Also New Aldine Gift Poets, Finely Illustrated: Lucile, cloth, full gilt side and edges, $5; morocco antique, $9.

Reported copies of Lucile:

1884. The Arundel Print. [sic], 24 West Fourteenth. 120x170mm, 369p. Green-brown cloth stamped black. Plain endsheets. S&EH.

----, 1884. 18cm., 369p. Microfilm reported by Columbia.

----, nd. 125x194mm, 369p. Spine: The Arundel Poets. Frontispiece portrait. Red line pages. Dark green cloth stamped black and gold; rectangular block featuring three muses. Beveled edges, aeg, plain endsheets. BAP Ar1: Christmas 1951 [sic] inscription to [a] "Lucille"; Harvard NL 0594572.

----, nd. 130x196mm, 369p. Frontispiece portrait. Four illustrations by W.L. Taylor. Titlepage has "The 'Arundel Poets'" at top, imprint reads "New York / The Arundel Print." Green cloth stamped gold and blind. "Reprinted from the Revised Editions. Unabridged" stamped on top cover. Owner's inscription dated November 29, 1881. Wabash College: owned by Thomas Riley Marshall, a Wabash graduate and Vice-President under Woodrow Wilson.

----, nd. 150x235mm, 369p. Cloth stamped gold. Light green floral endsheets. Bancroft Library NUC0594572, inscribed Dec. 30, 1883.  

Poetical Works:

1881. The Arundel Print. [sic]. 130x200mm, 480p. Frontispiece portrait. Brown cloth stamped black and gold. Aeg. Yellow-green endsheets. S&EH: signature dated December 25, 1881.  

----, nd.130x200mm, 480p. Frontispiece and title page follows BAP Ar1. Brown cloth stamped gold and black with plates as 1881 copy above. BAP.

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