Letters To Leigh Hunt from his son Vincent with some replies

Edited with a memoir of Vincent by A. N. L. Munby

Published by The Cloanthus Press, Cambridge, England, 1934

About this Item

Limited edition ( 'This edition is limited to 300 copies' ). This book was previously owned by Payson G. Gates. He was the author of another book titled 'William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt: The Continuing Dialogue, with Unpublished Letters of Lamb and Dickens'. His little Ex Libris sticker is off the bottom edge of the front inside cover (see photo). You can see the original red covers in the photos. The label on the spine is missing. There are little bump/creases at the corners, a small nick at the rear top edge, a thin bit of loss at the rear side of the spine (third photo), several small spots of soiling on the rear cover, wear and tiny loss at the spine ends, no rubbing at the corners. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover. The covers themselves are nicely tight. The middle page edge is deckled or rough-cut. The pages are very clean. I saw four pages with a small tan spot just off their outer edge. The blank front end paper has a light crease above its bottom edge. The half-title page has a light crease below its top corner. Both the front end paper and half-title page are tanned/toned. That's also the case for the second blank rear end paper, and the rear side of the first blank rear end paper. I also saw a few instances of a little crinkling, nothing much of anything. I didn't see any conspicuous creasing on the text pages. There is one odd thing: there is some light, colorless pressed lines of what might've been a drawing done on a piece of paper that was sitting on a page in the book. Odd, because I can make out these lines at the bottom of the Contents page, then again at the bottom of page 21 and then again the bottom of page 53, the last page before the Notes section. Does it have a meaning? I have provided a photograph of the Contents page. Across from page 40 there is 'a facsimile of part of letter XIII.' In the Notes section Mr. Gates penciled four tiny checkmarks at the margin, underlined in pencil four words, and placed a parentheses at the margin of part of one paragraph with a question mark to the right of it (all in a light penciling). There are no markings in the book. There is only the one aforementioned attachment, Mr. Gates label. And these few pencilings represent the only writing to be found in the book. Seller Inventory # 004804

Bibliographic Details

Title: Letters To Leigh Hunt from his son Vincent ...

Publisher: The Cloanthus Press, Cambridge, England

Publication Date: 1934

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Limited Edition