Lot 70
  • 70

Keats, John.

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Description

  • Endymion: a Poetic Romance. For Taylor and Hessey, 1818
8vo, first edition, issue with one leaf containing 5 errata on p.[xi], 4 pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end, original boards, printed label on spine, rebacked

Literature

Hayward 232; Ashley 3:13

Catalogue Note

an unopened copy of the first edition. Endymion, written when Keats was twenty-one years old, is dedicated to the memory of the poet Thomas Chatterton (see previous lot).