A jar of honey from Mount Hybla / by Leigh Hunt. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859
Other Authors: Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883
Language:English
Published: London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1848.
Local Note:
MSU: Bookplate of George Burgess.
MSU: Binder's label: Westleys & Clark, London
MSU: Chromolithographed paper on boards, this copy re-backed.
LM copy 1 in modern red cloth with red and gilt spine title label.
Physical Description:[iii]-viii, xiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Sicily, and its mythology
  • Glances at ancient Sicilian history and biography
  • Theocritus
  • Norman times; legend of King Robert
  • Italian and English pastoral
  • Scotch pastoral
  • Return to Sicily and Mount Ætna
  • Bees
  • Miscellaneous feelings respecting Sicily, its music, its religion, and its modern poetry
  • Overflowings of the jar.