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Leigh Hunt’s History of Kensington: Signed, Limited Edition

Leigh Hunt’s History of Kensington: Signed, Limited Edition

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Title:
Leigh Hunt’s History of Kensington: Signed, Limited Edition

Date of publication:

  • 1902

    • Binding:

  • contemporary Japanese vellum

    • Publisher:

  • Freemantle & Co.

    • Author:

  • James Henry Leigh Hunt

    • Illustrator:

  • Claude Shepperson
  • Edmund Sullivan
  • Herbert Railton

    • Edition:

  • large paper limited edition

    • The Old Court Suburb; or, Memorials of Kensington, Regal, Critical, and Anecdotical. London: Freemantle & Co, 1902

    A poet and journalist, Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was also a close friend of Shelley and Keats; his ‘anecdotical’ history of Kensington was first published in 1855. This large-paper limited edition was illustrated and signed by the three artists concerned: Edmund Sullivan, Claude Shepperson and Herbert Railton. Read more

    Condition & Materials

    2 vols. 4to. Number 16/150, signed by the artists. pp. xvii, [i], 211, [i]; xi, [i], 208 + 40 leaves of plates, and numerous illustrations in the text, japanese vellum blocked in gilt, a touch dusty and with a light half-ring stain to upper cover of volume one; bookseller’s ticket to front pastdown: R.D. Steedman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Read less