With Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries
The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt With Reminiscences of Friends and Contemporaries
Smith, Elder and Co., 1850.
First edition. Three volumes. 8vo. Original ochre cloth, elaborate floral decoration stamped in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Publisher's 16 page catalogue at the end of vol. 1, dated June 1850. Blue glazed endpapers and frontispiece portraits of Hunt to each volume. A fine set, clean and bright.
Leigh Hunt was a central figure of the Romantic movement in England, having a remarkable insight as a literary critic and discovering and introducing many poets to the public, among them John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, and Alfred Tennyson. His autobiography includes descriptions of his interactions with the major characters of the London literary scene.
Colbeck, p.409.
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