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The Poetical Works of John Keats. In two parts. Part I[-II].
“A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever”
First edition, first printing of the first separate edition of the author’s collected works to published in America.
Keats’s poems were initially included in various editions of The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, starting with Philadelphia in 1831. However, this 1846 volume, part of Wiley and Putnam’s “Library of Choice Reading,” is the first standalone collection of Keats’s poems published in America.
Anonymously edited, this edition includes “Endymion,” “Lamia,” “Isabella,” “The Eve of St. Agnes,” “Hyperion,” and miscellaneous poems, sonnets, epistles and stanzas. Rare to commerce with no copies found at auction in the trade. MacGillivray, #16.
Description: The Poetical Works of John Keats. In two parts. Part I[-II].
New-York: Wiley & Putnam, 161 Broadway, 1846. Two volumes in one. 16mo. [2], iv, 160, [2]; [i]–vi, 157, [1], [4]pp. Original publisher’s cloth. (Also issued in wraps; no priority known.) Spine sunned lightly-chipped at head and tail; later ownership inscriptions; foxed; margin loss to pp93–96. A good sound copy in a clear mylar wrapper.
[3734229]Price: $850.00