HUNT, James Henry Leigh. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, London: Chapman and Hall, 1846, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, contemporary polished calf gilt by Riviere with roll-tool borders and gilt inner dentelles (joints slightly rubbed), original cloth covers and backstrip bound in, t.e.g., bookplate of Jerome Kern. With 13 other leather-bound volumes by Hunt, including a signed copy of The Feast of The Poets (London, 1814), Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne (London, 1819), The Months descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year (London, 1821) and The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (presentation copy, London, 1844). (15)

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HUNT, James Henry Leigh. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, London: Chapman and Hall, 1846, 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, contemporary polished calf gilt by Riviere with roll-tool borders and gilt inner dentelles (joints slightly rubbed), original cloth covers and backstrip bound in, t.e.g., bookplate of Jerome Kern. With 13 other leather-bound volumes by Hunt, including a signed copy of The Feast of The Poets (London, 1814), Hero and Leander, and Bacchus and Ariadne (London, 1819), The Months descriptive of the Successive Beauties of the Year (London, 1821) and The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (presentation copy, London, 1844). (15)

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The first named work contains a tipped-in 3-page A.L.S. by the author, 16°, dated "May 19th" [n.y.] addressed to Edmund Ollier, the publisher. Hunt asks if the Letters of George Selwyn are genuine, whether the publisher will send him a signed volume and tells how Lord Leigh has kindly helped him through his "pass of anguish" by cashing a cheque for him.

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