John Keats was an English poet who was an important figure along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley in the Romantic period. His fame grew posthumously as critics were not overwhelmingly fond of his work during his lifetime. His works are primarily characterized by the use of sensual imagery and culminated in the six great odes he wrote in 1819. Keats published three works during his lifetime: Poems (1817), Endymion (1818) and Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820).
London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, second issue with imprint on verso of half-title reading "T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside." and with errata leaf in two states. First edition, second issue, a superb copy in original boards of the second of only three lifetime publications by Keats..... Read More about Endymion: A Poetic Romance
Price: $20,000
London: for Taylor and Hessey, 1818. First edition, first issue. First edition, first issue, of the second of only three lifetime publications by Keats, comprising his longest single sustained poem, famous for its opening line: “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”. This copy has the first issue..... Read More about Endymion. A Poetic Romance
Price: $8,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. The Hampstead Edition, No. 746 of 1050 sets signed by John Masefield and H. Buxton Forman. The publiser’s order form advertises the set in cloth for $96; in three quarter French levant for $200. Read More about The Poetical Works and Other Writings … edited by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with Additions by...
Price: $750
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. The Hampstead Edition, number 892 of 1050 sets, signed by John Masefield and H. Buxton Forman. Read More about The Poetical Works and Other Writings … edited by H. Buxton Forman. Revised with Additions by...
Price: $1,000