[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse Fine Bindings Light brown endpapers

Light brown endpapers

Small inlaid red dots in two sizes accent the entire cover

Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

Five bands to spine with title in second compartment and author in fourth compartment

[Fine Binding | Ringer | Holograph Poem by Eugene Field] A Little Book of Western Verse Fine Bindings Light brown endpapersField, Eugene. A Little Book of Western Verse. [Privately Printed for Subscribers,] 1889. Limited to 250 copies, of which this is #219. A signed, holograph poem by Field on the second flyleaf, with a small colored sketch of a girl (presumably the one mentioned in the poem): The garden may wither, the silver bird fly But what careth my little precious, or I? From her pathway of flowers that in springtime upstart She walketh the tenderer way in my