The Eve of St. Agnes. A Poem. With a Preface Written for It by Edmund Gosse.
Chicago. Published at the Fine Arts Building by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. 1900. Hardcover. 8vo, 22.5cm, (17), (37)pp., edition limited to 800 copies, this being No. 388, decorated double title-page, 6 drawings, extensive design and letter decoration, quarter dark green fine grain book linen backed grey-green paper over boards, gilt decorated gilt bloack time and decorated on the upper cover, former owner's inscription on front paste-down, a fine copy. (Lt) ~ Fine copies are scarce. One of last of Keats' poems, probably written in 1819 but first published in 1820. With a extensive background on the poem by English critic, Edmund Gosse. An attractive private press edition printed in Chicago by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Each page has been decorated or illustrated in rubricated style by American illustrator and publisher, Ralph Fletcher Seymour (1876-1966). Item #34715
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