The Eve of St. Agnes. A Poem. With a Preface Written for It by Edmund Gosse
by KEATS, John, designed & lettered by Ralph Fletcher Seymour
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34715
- Title
- The Eve of St. Agnes. A Poem. With a Preface Written for It by Edmund Gosse
- Author
- KEATS, John, designed & lettered by Ralph Fletcher Seymour
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chicago. Published at the Fine Arts Building by Ralph Fletcher Seymour. 1900
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE POEM KEATS LITERARY CRITICISM GOSSE ILLUSTRATED DECORATED SEYMOUR LIMITED EDITION
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Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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- Paste-down
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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