By Leigh Hunt
London   Edward Moxon
9" by 6" iv, 93, [1]pp.
Collection of essays and miscellaneous pieces from 'The Indicator' and 'The Companion' by Leigh Hunt.
By Leigh Hunt

1845 The Indicator and The Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-Side

London   Edward Moxon
9" by 6" iv, 93, [1]pp.
Collection of essays and miscellaneous pieces from 'The Indicator' and 'The Companion' by Leigh Hunt.
£90.00
: 0.75kgs / : 816A56

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Leather Binding, Rebound

Leigh Hunt was an English critic and poet, known co-founder of leading intellectual journal The Examiner and centre of the 'Hunt circle' with William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. Between 1819 and 1828, Hunt edited and contributed to literary periodicals The Indicator and The Companion with reviews, essays, stories, and poems concerning books, theatrical productions and miscellaneous topics.

This work was originally published in 1840, and it contains articles, essays, columns, and poems by Hunt concerning a wide range of topics including melancholy, household, social genealogy, angling, fiction, literary criticism, and more. 

Containing both two parts bound in one volume.

Featuring Stephen Edward Spring Rice's bookplate to front pastedown, British civil servant and academic.

Condition

In half calf binding over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine. Externally generally sound with shelf wear, joints, spine and extremities rubbed and lightly scuffed, spine sunned, minor marks to boards and spine. Stephen Edward Spring Rice bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Minor spotting to first few leaves, otherwise pages generally very clean throughout.

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