Buy this book on-line FORMAN, MAURICE BUXTON - Ed by: : The LETTERS of JOHN KEATSLONDON.GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE.OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS,1947. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,3rd edn.[Originally published in 2 vols (1931),a 2nd edn
followed in 1935,and a 2nd impression of that edn published in 1942.This is the 3rd edn (1947) - with revisions and additional letters.] VG+/VG.Previous owner's dark inked name inscrptn to top of ffe,no price-clip to dw/dj.Nondescript,plain, buff-coloured background with brown ink illustration to upper panel (believed to be by Lynton Lamb?),with an accidental ink splash/stain to lower corner of upper panel of dw/dj,with brown lettering,and publisher's advert to rear panel,designed dw/dj; with some negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners,some slight grubbing, some darkening of it's spine/backstrip, some chipping with minimal loss to corners and both head+foot of spine/backstrip. Described hard,but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or sounds! Top edges coloured burgundy,fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal but generally clean with some minimal sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight and clean with minimal page-edge foxing/ spotting - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? A production fault to pp451/2 (pages' bottom corners folded and misprinted to both sides)- blank to recto,jumbled print to recto. Bright,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain burgundy cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters - without any oxidisation - to spine/ backstrip and clean,plain white eps,owner name excepted.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,3rd edn,v-lxxpp+3-563pp [paginated] includes editor's preface,contents list/table
(chronology of principal events etc., Keat's pen-slips and unusual spellings, Letters [1816-20],a chronology principal events in Keat's life,biographical memoranda concerning Keat's correspondents).Plus [unpaginated] blank, half-title page,tissue-guarded montage'd sepia vignette portraits (some of Keats's corrspondents,illustrated frntis and title page.
The call for a 3rd impression of this book affords the opportunity to include in the addenda three letters which have come to light since the original publication in 1935.With the permission of the Library Committee of the Hampstead Borough Council,I also give from the holograph in the Keats Museum George Keat's last letter to John before leaving England for America for the second and last time.
I have changed the order of the first two letters in this collection,and I must record my thanks to the correspondents, both public and private,for the trouble they have taken to convince me that I was wrong in attributing the Cowden Clarke letter to 1815,and particularly to Dr. H. W. Garrod for the 'final assault' in the introduction to his edition of 'The Poetical Works of John Keats'.
A few letters have been revised and
amended on collation with holographs I had not previously seen.The most important of these is Keat's reply to Shelley's invitation to Pisa.A reduced facsimile of this letter is given in 'Mary Shelley,a Biography',by Miss R. Glynn Grylls,to whom I am indebted for a photograph of the original.
Some notes,mostly relating to quotations in the text,have been added. M. B. F.
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