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Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, Printed for

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Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, Printed for
Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, Printed for
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Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, half-title, 4 advertisement leaves at end, beautiful copy in red morocco, gilt, by Riviere, inner gilt dentelles, t.e.g., others uncut, 12mo, Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820.*** A fine copy of what is "now recognised as among the most important works of English poetry ever published" (ODNB). This is the third and final volume of poetry published in Keats's lifetime. By the time the volume appeared in early July of 1820, Keats was already gravely ill with the consumption that had killed his mother and brother and from which he died in Rome in February 1821. This collection, as well as the poems mentioned in the title, also includes the celebrated sequence of Odes ("To a Nightingale", "On a Grecian Urn", "To Psyche", and "On Melancholy").Provenance: Thomas Gaisford (bookplate).
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Keats (John) Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and other Poems, first edition, Printed for

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