A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla. Illustrated

by Richard Doyle by Leigh Hunt, James Henry

$450 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1848. 8vo, original glazed cream boards pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, green, & blue, a.e.g., after a design by Owen Jones; binder's label of Westley's & Clark, London. vi , viii, xxiii, 200, 16 publisher's catalogue pp. Many wood-engraved plates and text illustrations after Richard Doyle. Rubbed along edges, joints tattered as usual; but bright and clean and a far better copy of this famous, fragile binding than is usually

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