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Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half red straight-grained morocco, gilt, all edges gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. Spine showing a little wear, boards a little rubbed. With the (Sebastian Carter) book-label of David J. Hall, his pencilled note, "The Keats here without frontispiece as in the earliest issues" (but the frontispiece was actually a general one, featuring all three poets), and, above, an older pencilled note, "This is the first collected edition of the poetical works of P.B. Shelley and the first collected edition of the works of John Keats[.] It is a collector's item & scarce. Auction Records 1946 [£]8/12/6 1945 [£]4/0/-"; old manusript notes on two rear blanks, with, loosely inserted, portrait prints of Coleridge, 1837, and Shelley, 1838, issued by John Murray. The pirating publishers give notice: "Messrs. Galignani beg leave to intimate, that the present edition of the Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, is infinitely more perfect than any of those published in London; as they have been favoured, from private sources, with many original productions of these esteemed writers, which are now for the first time given to the public; in addition to which, all their contributions have been carefully selected from the numerous miscellaneous publications in which they have from time to time appeared."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$429.89 + shipping
Description: Royal 8vo (24 x 16cm). Edited by Cyrus Redding. An important edition constituting the first collected edition of Keats, the second of Shelley & Coleridge. 'A carefully edited and influential presentation'- CBEL. pp. [6],ixii,226,xii,276,viii,75. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the three poets. Variable foxing, as is common with this edition. Bound in contemporary half morocco with marbled boards, gilt, teg, rubbed but quite sound. [CBEL IV, 301,438 & 377; Wise 97; Sharp/Anderson ii; MacGillivray 8]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition in Zaehnsdorf blue-black polished calf binding, front board detached, 6 spine compartments separated by 5 gilt-ruled raised bands, leather title label, gilt-ruled panels, elaborate inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., first issue with date to title page, frontispiece (ports.) engraved by Wedgwood, tissue guard intact; edited with input from the friends & families of the respective poets, this important early edition published in Paris of these three major Romantic-era poets is the first collected edition of Keats's works and the second of Coleridge and Shelley, as well as the first printing of Mary Shelley's memoir of Shelley and a memoir of Keats derived from Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron and His Contemporaries; aside from the detached front board, the leather is in excellent bright condition with only slight rubbing to the ends & extremities & micro-chipping to leather at the spine folds, occasional minor staining & mild foxing to the pages, no markings, a still very handsome volume; from the collection of Keats scholar Earle Vonard Weller with his donation bookplate to his alma mater (Occidental College) to front pastedown; each poet's section separately paginated, (xi) 225, (xi) 275, (vii) 75pp; Royal 8vo; tissue-guarded engraved portrait frontispiece
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xi, 225, vii, 75 p. 24 cm. Title page vignette. Half leather with orange marbled paper boards. Text printed in double column. Respined with original spine reattached. Hinges repaired internally. New front free endpaper. Bookplate and ink inscription on front pastedown. Ink stamp on bookplate and title page. Foxing. Inscription at bottom of p. 38 in first part and ink mark on p. 3 of same section. This volume constitutes the first collected edition of Keats and the second collected works of Coleridge and Shelley. The Parisian publisher, Galignani, was famous for its pirated editions (Sir Walter Scott referred to the shop as the "old pirate's den") but the firm did have the cooperation of family members and literary friends of all three poets when assembling this volume. For example, each poet's work is preceded by a short life of the author, the memoir of Keats being produced by Leigh Hunt. Hunt also sent along some unpublished Keats poems in his possession to be included. Keats' literary executor, Charles Armitage Brown, disliked Hunt's portrayal of his friend, but Brown's own biography of Keats was not ready in time for this edition and was not published until 1937. The memoir of Shelley was written by his wife Mary Shelley who also helped the publication of this edition by allowing the publisher access to Shelley's papers.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, First Issue with date to title page. Small quarto (approx 22 x 13.5 cm), printed in double columns with each poet separately paginated: pp [6], xi, [1], 225, [1]; xi, [1], 275, [1]; vii, [1], 75, [1]. Vignette to title page. Green half-calf with 4 raised bands, maroon calf label to spine, gilt titles, pebbled green cloth-covered boards. All edges stained red. Calf scuffed with wear to corners; cover cloth a little wrinkled with associated wear. Lacks frontispiece. Rear inner hinge cracked but firmly holding. Light foxing throughout and a little staining to edges. As well as being the very first collected edition of Keats' work and the first printing of numerous poems by Coleridge and Shelley this edition also includes brief lives of each poet including the first printing of Mary Shelley's memoir of her husband and the first printing of Leigh Hunt's biography of Keats. Though famous for producing pirated works, in this case Galignani had the full cooperation of the poets' families and executors, including access to Shelley's papers.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Collection of three great Romantic poets Contains many poems published for the first time as it is the first collected edition of Keats, and Shelley's and Coleridge's second collected edition. Beautiful engravings on the frontispiece. Published by A. and W. Galignani. Firmly bound in original grey paper covered boards, recently rebacked in brown leather with gilt lettered black title label on spine. New endpapers plus the original rear free endpapers. Cover has edge wear, minor scratches, minor scuffs, rubbed corners/spine. Front hinge slightly cracked. A few pages with small chips. Small bent page corners. Age toning/foxing mainly to the margins of some pages. Minor notes in pencil related to importance of volume on flyleaf. No writing in text. This is an important work in nice condition.
Seller: Defunct Books, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, A beautiful Contemporary full decorative dark blue morocco binding, elaborately gilt decorated spine and boards, raised bands, All edges gilt. No previous ownership inscriptions. Housed in green clamshell box with a marbled interior and a black morocco label. FIRST EDITION of this collection of works by these three Romantic poets. Comprises the first collected edition of Shelley, the first collected edition of Keats, and only the second collected edition of Coleridge, with many poems published for the first time. With frontispiece portrait of the three poets. This edition was published in Paris because the poets lacked international copyright protection and no royalties needed to be paid. However, Galignani in fact worked closely with friends and relatives of the poets to create these three exhaustive collections. The frontispiece portrait is the first printed portrait of Shelley. MacGillivray B1. Peck ii, 440. A scarce and desirable copy in a beautiful and very appropriate period binding.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.