The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir... A New Edition. Signed Binding of Root & Son

The Poetical Works of John Keats. With a Memoir... A New Edition. Signed Binding of Root & Son. 1861. London: Edward Moxon & Co.

12mo.(4" x 6") Signed binding by Root & Son. 256 pp. Full blue leather with gilt "Ruby Carlisle" centered to upper board. Board edges with single bright gilt rule. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt year at foot. All edges gilt, terracotta fabric endpapers. Gilt "Bound by Root & Sons" to the foot of the front pastedown. All pages with black rule frame. Very minor edgewear, corners a little rubbed, hinges with stress lines, extremities lightly rubbed but otherwise Fine. Spine lightly sun-darkened.Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to the memoir of the author. A beautiful little book exquisitely bound by Root & Son.

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. His poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.

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