Description

[000032] Leigh, Lord [Leigh, Chandos], Walks in the Country, Edward Moxon, London, 1844, First Edition, Good+. Full Calf, 12mo, iv, 170pp, [2].

Full calf, raised bands, spine in five panels, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with curved lines joined by volute corner pieces, covers with single fillet border, primrose endpapers.

Spine dulled, slightly rubbed, internally the occasional hint of foxing, but generally quite bright and clean.

“Leigh, Chandos, first Baron Leigh (1791-1850), poet and literary patron … Poetry was his chief vanity; he published over two dozen volumes, mostly in small or private editions” (Oxford DNB)