The Poetical Works of John Keats. Edited with an Introduction and Textual Notes by H. Buxton Forman
KEATS, John
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE FIRST BUXTON FORMAN EDITION
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1906
Stock code: 50396
Price: £195.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present), title-vignette, 2 plates, and double-page facsimile toned in sepia (original paper guards present), free endpapers lightly spotted; plum cloth, vellum back riled and lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
Buxton Forman's edition collects for the first time the whole of Keats's known work in verse. This Clarendon printing is the true first, predating by a year the Frowde version of 1907. The plates include Severn's death-bed portrait of the poet and Haydon's life-mask; the double-page facsimile reproduces sixteen lines of a draft of 'The Eve of St. Mark' which appears here for the first time. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.