[HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus, London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marginal tear to frontispiece, offsetting to title, some spotting), original cloth (rebacked), bookplates of Higginson and William Roy Smith, preserved in a quarter morocco box -- G. B. BOSCHINI (editor). Aminta, di T. Tasso, London: G. Schulze, 1809, 16°, ELIZABETH KENT'S COPY WITH INSCRIPTION BY LEIGH HUNT to front blank, reading: "Opera somigliante lei chi posserdela, -- penserosa, poetica, amabile," extra illustrated with 6 small prints, contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old spine, front inner hinges split), bookplate of Mrs Kent. (2)

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[HUNT, James Henry Leigh] BERWICK, Edward. The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from the Greek of Philostratus, London: T. Payne, 1809, 8°, FIRST EDITION, LEIGH HUNT'S COPY WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH TO TITLE, mounted engraved frontispiece (small marginal tear to frontispiece, offsetting to title, some spotting), original cloth (rebacked), bookplates of Higginson and William Roy Smith, preserved in a quarter morocco box -- G. B. BOSCHINI (editor). Aminta, di T. Tasso, London: G. Schulze, 1809, 16°, ELIZABETH KENT'S COPY WITH INSCRIPTION BY LEIGH HUNT to front blank, reading: "Opera somigliante lei chi posserdela, -- penserosa, poetica, amabile," extra illustrated with 6 small prints, contemporary calf (rebacked, preserving old spine, front inner hinges split), bookplate of Mrs Kent. (2)

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The first work has the following inscription in the hand of Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "Bought by me from Leigh Hunt's library; it has his autograph on title-page, & all the marks are his, both with ink & pencil. He probably added the frontispiece. His rhymed story of "The Panther" is professedly founded on the passage pp. 68-9. T.W.H." Hunt's Italian inscription to his sister-in-law in the second work translates as "A work similar to the one who owns it, - thoughtful, poetic, amiable." Hunt married Marianne Kent in 1809, and published a translation of Aminta in 1820.