THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS. Given From His Own Editions and Other Authentic Sources and Collated With Many Manuscripts. Edited with Notes and Appendices by H. Buxton Forman.

An early and illustrated edition of the Forman edited Keats. With an engraved portrait frontispiece of Keats, with printed autograph, six other portraits and 10 other illustrations all on plates. 8vo, in a handsomely presented and fine binding by Macmillan and Bowes of three-quarter crushed morocco over delicately marbled tan paper covered boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and with thick raised bands beautifully gilt decorated. Gilt ruling on the covers, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. xxxi, 597 pp. A fine copy in every way, internally pristine and the binding in excellent condition.

Edizione: a very handsome and finely bound copy of buxton forman’s highly important collection of keats. the ten illustrations are lovely pre-raphaelite plates and the seven portraits nicely round out the volume. a very pretty book, well suited to the content.<br> a beautiful copy of this fine book. buxton forman’s highly important collection of keats. with his scholarly notes and appendices. ‘in this reissue of keats's writings no change has been made in the general arrangement, and only two words have been altered in the text of the poems.’ “the whole of keats’s known works in verse are included in this volume; and the foot-notes contain a large selection of variorum readings. sixteen lines of the eve of st. mark, found by the editor in a keats scrap-book lent to him by mr. frank sabin, and given in the introduction, have not been printed in any other edition.”<br> a definitive scholarly edition with annotations. includes a chronology of keats’ life and short biographical description of all the correspondents. to harry buxton forman in the first place, and then to sir sidney colvin, is due also the credit of gathering and arranging the mass of keats’ correspondence. their collection was based on the latest published work of forman, supplemented by the fruits of his subsequent research, as well as from other sources. he was the most renown of all keats scholars.