Lord Byron and some of his contemporaries; with recollections of the author's life, and of his visit to Italy.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
Category
Books
Date
1828
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3169447
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., ports., facsim. (fold.) ; 8vo. Imperfect: vol. 1 only. With half title to the set: Byron Vol. XX. With additional printed leaf bound In: The lion and the puppy-dog; Lord Byron and Leigh Hunt. By Thomas Moore, Esq. (William Clark, printer, Paternoster-Row). Loosely inserted ticket (p.267): Keats-Shelley Memorial, 26, Piazza di Spagna. No. 5655. Pencil text marking in different colours, with final endpaper annotation and page references. Provenance: nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: John Adolphus Esqre. [likely to be John Adolphus (1768-1845), historian]; over the latter plate, small round nineteenth-century book label, with cherub holding gold plaque: John Murray, Newstead, Wimbledon Park [i.e. John [iii] Murray] (1808–1892)]. Binding: uniform with with other volumes in the set, nineteenth-century full calf; gilt fillet border; gilt tooled spine; red spine label (part missing), gilt lettered: Byron / 20 / Contemporaries / Leigh Hunt.
Makers and roles
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)