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London: Smith, Elder & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards: edgewear, rubbed, bumped. Text: top . corner of PDE missing, endpapers shadowed, few pages roughly cut.. 1890. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt on spine. Gilt top page edge. Several pages of publisher's advertisement at rear. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 332 pages .
Wit and Humour, selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay and Critical Comments by Hunt, Leigh - 1846
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Wit and Humour, selected from the English Poets; with an Illustrative Essay and Critical Comments
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London: Smith, Elder and Co. [Printed by Stewart and Murray], 1846. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original rose cloth bound by Westley & Clark, London (with label on pastedown) with elaborate gilt cornerpieces with gilt vase on covers, spine trellised and lettered in gilt, a.e.g. Darkened, spine worn along joints, some light spotting or soiling of text, mostly marginal, lower inner hinge starting. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Brewer p. 214; Mitchell 44; NCBEL 3:1218
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- Date Published 1846
- Keywords British | Leigh Hunt
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London: Smith, Elder, and Co. , 1846. First edition. Leather. Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. A very charming, uncommon first edition copy of this collection of poems by various English writers with critical comments, edited by Leigh Hunt. The first edition of this work. Comprising a selection of poems by English authors, with critical comments by Hunt Leigh: with works by Chaucer and Shakespeare as well as many others. Including an illustrative essay on wit and humour. James Henry Leigh Hunt was an English critic, essayist, and poet. He was a very prominent Romantic figure, producing many varieties of poems: narrative, satires, odes, sonnets, and much more. In half calf binding and marbled boards, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally lovely with only minor shelfwear. Internally, firmly bound. Slight offsetting to title page, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Fine
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