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Keats, John; Forman, Maurice Buxton [ed.].
The Letters of John Keats.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1931
Stock Code: 14646
Octavo, two volumes, pp., lv, 292; 293-607, plus tissue-guarded frontispieces. Publisher’s unclipped cream dust-jackets. Publisher’s red cloth, titles to paper spine labels. Spine-panel of jackets sunned, very light scattered spotting and soiling to upper panels. Damp to upper edges of cloth, otherwise clean and neat. Scattered foxing to edges of text-block, continuing to select leaves. A solid, square set in very good jacket. Keats’ letters were first partially published in 1878, edited by Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917). Forman then edited the standard edition of the letters for Keats’ centenary in 1895, which was republished in 1901. As described in the preface, this volume (compiled by Buxton Forman’s son, Maurice), is largely derived from volumes three and five of that 1901 edition, which contains the bulk of the correspondence to Fanny Brawne (1800-65). This edition published, for the first time, additional correspondence to the poet’s brothers, George and Tom, and a previously unseen letter to the wine merchant and coffee-man Richard Woodhouse (1760-1833). £50.00