Signed books: Essays and Poems of Leigh Hunt, Volume I and Volume II, edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. Limited issue of 1000. London: J. M. Dent, 1891. Hardcovers bound in blue cloth with gilt spine titling, 4.25 x 6.5, 235 and 268 pages. Each signed and inscribed on the first free end page in ink to his wife Ellen Axson Wilson for her 31st birthday, "Ellie, from Woodrow, 15 May, 1891." Autographic condition: very good to fine, with light overall staining to the signed pages, and a small chip to their right edges. Book condition: VG/None, with chipping at spine ends, bumped corners, mild foxing and toning to endpapers, and "Library of Lawrence E. Miller" blindstamps to rear pages. From the Collection of Dr. Lawrence E. Miller.
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