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KEATS, John (1795-1821) | HOLMES, Charles John (edited by). THE POEMS OF JOHN KEATS. Hacon & Ricketts, 1898.

Price: US$2600.34 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Two volumes, edited by Charles Horne and decorated by Charles Ricketts. A handsome set in the Vale Press series printed at the Ballantyne Press in an edition of 217 copies. Decorated double pages at the beginning of each volume with decorated initials throughout and the printer's device on verso of page facing colophon. Bound by Morley of Oxford, signed, in dark green morocco with raised bands and gilt title lettering to spines; top edges gilt; single gilt filet around the edges both boards; date at foot of spines. Vol I comprises Endymion and Hyperion, while the second volumes has a selection of earlier poems, sonnets and odes. A handsome set.

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