“We are glad to perceive that such volumes are being published at a price which will place them within the reach of the middle classes, and we shall find, as the result of this movement, that tradesmen and others will furnish their book-shelves with good and select works, instead of subscribing to circulating libraries. We learn it is the publishers’ intention to continue the volumes until all the author’s works are republished in this style.”—Plymouth Herald.
LEIGH HUNT’S SELECTIONS OF POETRY.
IMAGINATION AND FANCY;
Or, Selections from the English Poets, illustrative of those First Requisites of their Art, with Markings of the best Passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in Answer to the Question, “What is Poetry?” By Leigh Hunt. Third Edition. In post 8vo. price 10s. 6d. handsomely bound in a new kind of cloth, gilt; or 9s. boards.
“This volume is handsomely printed, and beautifully bound in a new style of exquisite delicacy and richness. In external beauty ‘Imagination and Fancy’ equals any gift-books that have appeared; and it will form a more enduring memorial than any other volume that might he selected as a gift for the coming season.”—Spectator.
“This is a Christmas gift, worth half a dozen of the Annuals put together, and at half the cost of one of them. We have often wished for such a book, and in our aspiration, the name of Leigh Hunt has ever presented itself as that of the man above all others qualified to do justice to so charming a subject.”—Morning Chronicle.
“The volume is, we trust, the precursor of many more, which will complete and do justice to the plan. The series so completed would be the best ‘elegant extracts’ in the language.”—Examiner.
“This is a charming volume, both externally and internally it is most attractive.”—Atlas.
“It is a book that every one who has a taste must have, and every one who has not should have in order to acquire one.”—Jerrold’s Magazine.
“This book is tastefully got up, and we should think better of the house where we saw a well read copy of it lying about.”—Tait’s Magazine.