Stories from the Italian poets: with lives of the writers

by Leigh Hunt

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First edition

London: Chapman & Hall, 1846. First edition, 2 vols., large 12mo, pp. xviii, 417, 1 + 16pp. publisher's catalogue dated December, 1845; 6 , 515, 1 ; very good, bright set in orig. blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine. All points conforming to Brewer's first issue. Brewer, p. 217-19: The contents of the first volume include critical notices of the lives and geniuses of Dante and Pulci with quotations from their works, and an appendix which gives the story of

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