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KEATS, John. The poetical works of john keats.

London. Reeves & Turner, 1885. Second edition.
8vo. xxxi, [1], 597, [1], 10pp, With a half-title, an engraved portrait frontispiece, and terminal catalogue of advertisements. Contemporary gilt-ruled green morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G., patterned endpapers, gilt dentelles. Rubbed and marked, surface wear to extremities, heavily sunned, cracking to upper joint, and damp-staining to upper board. Bookplate of Elizabeth Grenfell to FEP, with contemporary inked inscription to front blank fly-leaf, title page browned, scattered spotting.
The second edition of Reeves & Turner's collected poems of English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821), with an introduction and textual notes by Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917), bibliophile and forger implicated in the notorious scandals of Thomas J. Wise.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 36129