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Keats, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, London, 1820.

Price: US$8750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: FIRST EDITION. Full modern brown morocco with raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Bound without the half-title and ads. The blank upper margin of the title-page has been excised and restored, else this is a very good copy, finely bound, of Keat's third and final book, containing his finest and best-known odes. Hayward 233; MacGillivray 3.

Seller: Clarel Rare Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Keats, John [Bookplate Of Maurice Baring]. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve Of St. Agnes, And Other Poems (First Edition, 1820, With Half Title And Near Fine Spine Label Bound In Riviere Binding). Taylor And Hessey, London, 1820.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: [200] Pp. First Edition, Half Title Present, Original Paper Spine Label Bound In. Keats' Last Book, Of Modest Success When Published, Later Found To Have Some Of The Finest Poems In The English Language. When Shelley's Body Was Recovered In The Roads Of Viareggio (Not The Gulf Of Spezia) In 1822, Identification Was Made Possible By Two Books He Carried In His Pocket, A Sophocles, And A Copy Of "Lamia" Doubled Back At "The Eve Of St. Agnes". Binding By Riviere, In Late 19Th Or Early 20Th Century Full Calf, Five Bands, Gilt In All Compartments, Gilt Rules On Boards With Small Devices At Corners. Binding Re-Backed Preserving The Riviere Spine, Boards And Green Endpapers.17.2 X 10.7 Cm [The Uncut Leaves Were 7" X 4", Thus These Leaves Trimmed At Top And Bottom, Presumably When Bound]. Complete, Including The Half Title, And The "Advertisement" Leaf After The Title Page. With The Correct "London: Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars." On The Verso Of The Half-Title. The Ads At Rear, Found In Some Copies But Not Required, Are Not Present Here. The Entire Original Spine Label From The Original 1820 Publication In Boards Has Been Attached By The Binder To A Final Blank. Elaborate And Artistically Engraved Decorative Bookplate Of Author Maurice Baring [Of The English Banking Family] Dated June 1897 In The Plate. Slight Chipping To Edges Of Endpapers, Contents Otherwise Clean And Complete, No Foxing To Pages, Touch Of Wear At Corners Of Page Block.

Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Printed for Taylor and Hessey, London, 1820.

Price: US$13500.00 + shipping

Description: Full Description: KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. Twelvemo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 155 x 97 mm). [vi], 199, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Bound without the half-title or the ads at the rear. With the publisher's advertisement leaf at the front, bound after the title-page. Late nineteenth-century full red morocco. Boards ruled and stamped in gilt. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Watered green silk paste-downs and free endpapers. All edges gilt. A minor crack to bottom outer hinge. Some minor foxing but generally very clean. Overall a very good, attractive copy. Housed in a red cloth slipcase. Slipcase with some rubbing and soiling. First edition of the poet's third and last book. Taylor and Hessey originally planned to issue the last of Keats's poems in five separate pamphlets at a half-crown each but quickly realized that it was eminently more salable as a volume of poems at 7s. 6d. On 24 June publisher John Taylor wrote his father that "Next week Keats's new Volume of poems will be published, and if it does not sell well, I think nothing will ever sell againâ€"I am sure of this for poetic Genius there is not his equal living, & I would compare him against any one with either Milton or Shakespeare for Beauties." The book resonates with not only the notable three poems mentioned in the title, but also with the unfinished epic "Hyperion" and three of the four great odes: "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." For the first time, critical acclaim of Keats's poems was not limited to his small circle of friends. "The reviewers were won over . all to a measure of admiration, and without any dispiriting delays," wrote Keats's biographer Robert Gittings, and that "Keats had at last the consolation of being fully reviewed, recognized, praised and extensively quoted and reprinted in his lifetime, a success by no means accorded to all poets" (pp. 401-402). Yet favorable public notice was of cheap comfort to Keats, who, because of declining health, once more abandoned "Hyperion," which was to be his great work and equal in length to "Endymion." Ashley III, 15. Grolier, 100 English, 72. Hayward 233. MacGillivray 3. Sterling 523. HBS 68955. $13,500.

Seller: Heritage Book Shop, ABAA, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Keats, John. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (Includes "Ode to a Nightengale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to Psyche," and "Ode to Melancholy"). Printed for Taylor and Hessey, London, 1820.

Price: US$25000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing published in London. A fantastic copy. This copy is elegantly bound in a period morocco black letter with raised bands. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine. The pages are clean with a Frederick Locker armorial bookplate and previous owner's name neatly written on a blank page before the title page. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO foxing in the book. A superb copy of the author's third and last book published in his lifetime. This book includes some of his best-loved poems: "Ode to a Nightengale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to Psyche," and "Ode to Melancholy."

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.