Lot 569
  • 569

Keats, John

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Keats, John
  • Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820
  • ink on paper
8vo, first edition, half-title, fly-titles, contemporary blue boards, spine with paper label, uncut, chemise and brown morocco pull-off case, without advertisements, some repairs to spine, label worn, upper cover very nearly loose

Literature

Hayward 233; Ashley 3:15; Grolier English 167; Tinker 1420

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Keats' last and greatest collection of poems, containing the celebrated sequence of Odes ("To a Nightingale", "On a Grecian Urn", "To Psyche", and "On Melancholy"). All the poems were written in 1819. Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome in February 1821.