Imagination and Fancy: Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?"
by Hunt, Leigh
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1844. Full tan polished leather with raised and gilt spine, two leather spine labels, marbled endpapers, and t.e.g. Slight rubbing to bands on backstrip a nd book plate inside front cover. A fine copy of this first edition by an erudite man of letters of whom one reviewer wrote, "we must be content, in a few words, to express our belief that, after Colderidge, there is no critic to whom the young student of poetry has so much reason to be grateful as to Leigh Hunt." [Northern British Review, Nov. 1860, vol. 33] CBEL III 645, Ireland 177,. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000388
- Title
- Imagination and Fancy: Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative of those First Requisites of Their Art; with Markings of the Best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question "What is Poetry?"
- Author
- Hunt, Leigh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1844
- Keywords
- LEIGH HUNT, ENGLISH POETRY, FINE BINDING 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century English Literature; Alibris3;
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