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Keats, John; Garrod, W. R. (ed.).
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
Publisher: At the Clarendon Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1958
Stock Code: 15662
Second edition. Octavo, pp., xviii, 578, [2], plus frontispiece portrait of Keats. Publisher’s original midnight blue cloth; titled in gilt to spine; publisher’s emblem in blind to upper board within blind ruled border; white end-papers; bottom edge untrimmed; in the original pale blue dust-jacket; titles printed in blue to spine and upper panel; price on inner flap cancelled with sticker and pencil, but not clipped. Minor loss to head of jacket; closed tear to head of lower panel approx. 2cm; spine panel toned; faint soiling to foot of lower panel. Binding strong and square. Internally clean and bright. A near-fine copy in very good jacket. A landmark scholarly edition of Keats’ poetry, which advertises that the notes, commentary, and introduction have been greatly expanded from that of the first edition. £35.00