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Author: Hunt, Leigh
Title: Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries; With Recollections of the Author’s Life, and of His Visit to Italy
Place Published: London
Publisher:Henry Colburn
Date Published: 1828
Description:

2 volumes. Frontis portraits, three plates and one leaf of facsimiles of the holograph of Byron, Keats and Shelley. (8vo), later dark blue smooth calf, red and black morocco labels, gilt decorations and lettering. Second Edition, published the same year as the first.

Leigh Hunt's controversial memoir of Lord Byron, with shorter chapters on Thomas Moore, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge and Lamb, among others. There are a number of Byron letters which appear in print here for the first time, and this second edition contains Hunt's 28-page preface in which he defends himself against critics who charged that he had done an injustice to Byron's character.

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Edges a little rubbed and faded; some light foxing; faint remains of a signature in the upper margins of the title-page; very good.