(London, "For Private Circulation Only": Spottiswoode and Co., 1865.).

Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. Item #27712

First Edition. Only 250 copies printed. Edited by the poet's widow, Blanche Smith Clough and inscribed by her at the top of the title-page. Contains some previously unpublished poems and a verse play about Venice. The poet was friends with Emerson, Longfellow, Hawthorne and others. He traveled to the United States in 1852 in the same ship as Thackeray and James Russell Lowell. 8vo,, in the publisher's handsome original textured green cloth, the upper cover with Clough's initials in gilt within a panel made from multiple gilt and black ruled lines with crossing corners, the spine gilt lettered and ruled in gilt and black. A fine fresh copy.